Mars Nicolí
@marsnicoli.bsky.social
One of those queers.
PhD candidate on Trans Horror.
He/him ze/hir
PhD candidate on Trans Horror.
He/him ze/hir
A great time to have trans studies front and center as your main field of studies
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
A great time to have trans studies front and center as your main field of studies
This. I have seen the following things advertised as AI:
* A weight sensor
* A physical thermostat
* Markov chains (this especially bothers me because I did a little bit of fun generative art with Markov chains before "Generative" "AI" was a thing)
* Procedural tree generation
* Procedural textures
* A weight sensor
* A physical thermostat
* Markov chains (this especially bothers me because I did a little bit of fun generative art with Markov chains before "Generative" "AI" was a thing)
* Procedural tree generation
* Procedural textures
love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
December 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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one more hour
It is slipping away
🖥️ AN OLD PAIN MADE UNREAL AND VIVID IN THE SPUTTERING, INTERMITTENT, BLUE-LIT BLIGHT OF NOW 🖥️
🕳️
You are not coming b-
🖥️ PULLS AT THE SCABBING SCAR-TISSUE OF TRANSSEXUAL FLESH IN THESE EXISTENTIALLY TERRIFYING TIMES 🖥️
🕳️
wh-
🖥️ I CAN'T IMAGINE I WILL READ A BETTER NOVEL THIS YEAR 🖥️
🖥️ AN OLD PAIN MADE UNREAL AND VIVID IN THE SPUTTERING, INTERMITTENT, BLUE-LIT BLIGHT OF NOW 🖥️
🕳️
You are not coming b-
🖥️ PULLS AT THE SCABBING SCAR-TISSUE OF TRANSSEXUAL FLESH IN THESE EXISTENTIALLY TERRIFYING TIMES 🖥️
🕳️
wh-
🖥️ I CAN'T IMAGINE I WILL READ A BETTER NOVEL THIS YEAR 🖥️
Please consider that something might be downstairs!
You have until December 21st!
To pre-order the PERSONA deluxe pack
Otherwise everything will be lost
But maybe
You can sleep.
🥌 Canada pre-order ➡️ blackbondbooks.com/item/wwmn8Ke...
🌭 USA pre-order ⬇️
You have until December 21st!
To pre-order the PERSONA deluxe pack
Otherwise everything will be lost
But maybe
You can sleep.
🥌 Canada pre-order ➡️ blackbondbooks.com/item/wwmn8Ke...
🌭 USA pre-order ⬇️
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
one more hour
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Leaked audio from Cass talking to NHS Sheffield.
drive.proton.me/urls/EPMR96E...
Leak is thanks to Trans Kids Deserve Better
www.instagram.com/reel/DSf3rqb...
drive.proton.me/urls/EPMR96E...
Leak is thanks to Trans Kids Deserve Better
www.instagram.com/reel/DSf3rqb...
Proton Drive
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December 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Leaked audio from Cass talking to NHS Sheffield.
drive.proton.me/urls/EPMR96E...
Leak is thanks to Trans Kids Deserve Better
www.instagram.com/reel/DSf3rqb...
drive.proton.me/urls/EPMR96E...
Leak is thanks to Trans Kids Deserve Better
www.instagram.com/reel/DSf3rqb...
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Those of you involved with running charities, please note 👇
Third Sector Against Transphobia has launched an open letter in support of trans people and requesting improved guidance and support from the Charity Commission for charities attacked by ‘gender critical’ transphobes ‘lawfare’
Sign here 👉 www.thirdsectoragainsttransphobia.org
Sign here 👉 www.thirdsectoragainsttransphobia.org
December 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Those of you involved with running charities, please note 👇
In this #newblogpost, I discuss the relationship between Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism: how they help us understand and respond to law's inadequacy, dystopia, racial injustice, appropriation of trauma and the algorithmic racist bias of digital technologies.
folukeafrica.com/afrofuturism...
folukeafrica.com/afrofuturism...
Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism Duelling and Dwelling Within ‘Black African Science Fiction’
An umbrella for reimagining racial justice covering a diversity of origins, methods, and futures
folukeafrica.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Just a reminder that Romancing the Gothic's conference this year is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe's publications!
The conference focuses on women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror!
Come join us!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
The conference focuses on women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror!
Come join us!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
Romancing the Gothic 2026 Online Conference CFP
More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Ann Radcliffe’s final po…
romancingthegothic.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Just a reminder that Romancing the Gothic's conference this year is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe's publications!
The conference focuses on women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror!
Come join us!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
The conference focuses on women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror!
Come join us!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
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I'm grateful to @hughryan.bsky.social for mentioning in his latest newsletter this beautiful and deeply moving 22-minute documentary about the Lavender Hill commune. So important these days to remember there are other ways of living and being.
vimeo.com/92450838
vimeo.com/92450838
Lavender Hill: a love story
LAVENDER HILL Original documentary short (22 min) Follow on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lavender-Hill-a-love-story/497569736989139 Producer/Writer:…
vimeo.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I'm grateful to @hughryan.bsky.social for mentioning in his latest newsletter this beautiful and deeply moving 22-minute documentary about the Lavender Hill commune. So important these days to remember there are other ways of living and being.
vimeo.com/92450838
vimeo.com/92450838
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Romancing the Gothic organises free talks every Saturday all through the year!
Our talks are open to all, happen at two different times (usually) so people can join us from different time zones, and are free (though donations welcome to support the programme)
This year's programme below!
Our talks are open to all, happen at two different times (usually) so people can join us from different time zones, and are free (though donations welcome to support the programme)
This year's programme below!
December 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Romancing the Gothic organises free talks every Saturday all through the year!
Our talks are open to all, happen at two different times (usually) so people can join us from different time zones, and are free (though donations welcome to support the programme)
This year's programme below!
Our talks are open to all, happen at two different times (usually) so people can join us from different time zones, and are free (though donations welcome to support the programme)
This year's programme below!
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Informed consent is the compromise. Justice would be over the counter HRT.
December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Informed consent is the compromise. Justice would be over the counter HRT.
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Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction.
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
December 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction.
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
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“10% of the sales of Harry Potter merchandise from our store will go to these charities that supports trans people”
oh? and the other 90%?
oh? and the other 90%?
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“10% of the sales of Harry Potter merchandise from our store will go to these charities that supports trans people”
oh? and the other 90%?
oh? and the other 90%?
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Big update: STRETCH GOAL!
You all blew us away by funding this campaign in the first 10 days! Thank you! We're increasing the goal to $7,500 to buy you even more to read this holiday season and in 2026!
You all blew us away by funding this campaign in the first 10 days! Thank you! We're increasing the goal to $7,500 to buy you even more to read this holiday season and in 2026!
You can take a peek at the titles on our wishlist, and if we can raise at least $5,000 by the end of the year, we'll be able to buy it all for you! Donate here! givebutter.com/ss1FZb
Queer Liberation Library's Holiday Wishlist Fundraiser!
By Queer Liberation Library
givebutter.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Big update: STRETCH GOAL!
You all blew us away by funding this campaign in the first 10 days! Thank you! We're increasing the goal to $7,500 to buy you even more to read this holiday season and in 2026!
You all blew us away by funding this campaign in the first 10 days! Thank you! We're increasing the goal to $7,500 to buy you even more to read this holiday season and in 2026!
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y’all don’t hate heteronormativity nearly enough
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
y’all don’t hate heteronormativity nearly enough
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Reminder - Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University
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December 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reminder - Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University
t.co/QK7DDTdeNb
t.co/QK7DDTdeNb
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a lot of "dark academia" stuff is just the author wanting to tell you that they went to a good school but they're not like those other people there, but I think "The Secret History" really does get at the gulf between idealized humanities and moral reality.
But I don't think it makes you a *morally* better person. It might be one of the ways your morality is shaped or the language you use to express it, but it's a vessel, not the substance. We do not, after all, think of professors of English Literature as an unusually virtuous bunch.
December 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
a lot of "dark academia" stuff is just the author wanting to tell you that they went to a good school but they're not like those other people there, but I think "The Secret History" really does get at the gulf between idealized humanities and moral reality.
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Y’all ever notice that trans women aren’t allowed to be a little annoying or mean without having some social indictment keyword lobbed at them
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Y’all ever notice that trans women aren’t allowed to be a little annoying or mean without having some social indictment keyword lobbed at them
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A lot of journalists are writing stories about DIY now and I don't trust any of them not to scaremonger about it to build support for crackdowns. I've refused requests for interviews on this. Do not talk to the media about DIY.
Trans people need to be careful about talking about DIY. Yes talk about it in the general sense, quote the facts and figures but be careful. Don't give away sources to cis folks. Don't talk to journalists about the details. They're coming for it.
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A lot of journalists are writing stories about DIY now and I don't trust any of them not to scaremonger about it to build support for crackdowns. I've refused requests for interviews on this. Do not talk to the media about DIY.
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Hello, hi. I am glad you like my content. However, I must insist that if you intend to watch the Harry Potter TV show, for whatever reason, you don't get to enjoy my content as well. Please unfollow.
If you value entertainment over the ruination of trans lives, you don't get to enjoy us.
If you value entertainment over the ruination of trans lives, you don't get to enjoy us.
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Hello, hi. I am glad you like my content. However, I must insist that if you intend to watch the Harry Potter TV show, for whatever reason, you don't get to enjoy my content as well. Please unfollow.
If you value entertainment over the ruination of trans lives, you don't get to enjoy us.
If you value entertainment over the ruination of trans lives, you don't get to enjoy us.
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I switched to this and @bookshop.org for every book, ebook, and audiobook purchase where they have what I want - which is 99% of them -- and the apps are great, and I get to support a local bookstore. It's all win here, folks.
If you happen to be looking for an alternative audiobook listening platform, there are many out there, including us at Libro.fm 👋
We aim to build community in many ways, including by supporting independent bookshops with every purchase you make—versus tearing communities apart.
We aim to build community in many ways, including by supporting independent bookshops with every purchase you make—versus tearing communities apart.
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I switched to this and @bookshop.org for every book, ebook, and audiobook purchase where they have what I want - which is 99% of them -- and the apps are great, and I get to support a local bookstore. It's all win here, folks.
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BoyThrob is the new Lonely Island
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
BoyThrob is the new Lonely Island
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Interesting
November 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Interesting
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"rejects conventional wisdom around representational politics, form or even what a movie is" -Sight and Sound
castration movie anthology
chapter i. incel superman
chapter ii. traps swan princess
available now ~ louiseweard.gumroad.com/l/castration...
youtu.be/2NsKOWWrARI?...
chapter i. incel superman
chapter ii. traps swan princess
available now ~ louiseweard.gumroad.com/l/castration...
youtu.be/2NsKOWWrARI?...
castration movie anthology i. traps (trailer)
YouTube video by Louise Weard
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"rejects conventional wisdom around representational politics, form or even what a movie is" -Sight and Sound