Maggie Hennefeld
Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Starter Packs
Created by Maggie Hennefeld (2)
Feminist Comedy
A celebration of feminist writers who say and think smart things about comedy (and who are also very funny!!!).
Feminist Media
If you are interested in feminist media, identify as feminist, have things that you love that are also mediated, then this is the starter pack for you!!!
@culturalcritique.bsky.social
Cultural Critique is a journal for creative and provocative scholarship in the theoretical humanities and humanistic social sciences. https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/cultural-critique
@vessyh.bsky.social
Exploring the intersections of gender, media & power | Part-time feminist killjoy | Specialising in research communication, engagement & impact | she/her
@wfthn.bsky.social
Exploring the contributions women have made to the emergence and development of film and television. Next conference: DWFTH7, Lincoln, 18-20 July 2025 Website: https://wfthn.com/
@lizziela.bsky.social
filmmaker, REGROUPING, BORN IN FLAMES, WORKING GIRLS, editor of WHOREPHOBIA: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life. borninflamesmovie.com workinggirlsmovie.com
@msorrento.bsky.social
Editor of FilmInt Online and Retreats from Oblivion: Journal of NoirCon / Film Studies Lecturer, Rutgers-Camden / Cerebral Palsy Parent / Becoming Nosferatu: Stories Inspired by Silent German Horror, now available from BearManor Media!
@wozbell.bsky.social
@askjerseth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Popular Music at University of California, Riverside. Formerly Lecturer in Audiovisual Media at Uni of Liverpool. Social histories of music, sound, technology, and media; popular music; music videos; sound and music in film and media
@specksofthings.bsky.social
new to BSky ... queer cinema history | contemporary lesbian film archive-ology | historiography | creative practice use: she/her - them/they also ok www.susanpotter.me
@bridgettmdavis.bsky.social
Author of the memoirs LOVE, RITA (March ‘25) & THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FANNIE DAVIS and writer/director of the newly rediscovered film NAKED ACTS. Proud native of Detroit. Substack: https://substack.com/@bridgettmdavis
@facesofjeff.bsky.social
Now I am become Jeff, destroyer of worlds. Freelance film writer. Booklet editor for @indicator.bsky.social
@cherrypoppunk.bsky.social
lambda poetry fellow 👸 disney and nintendo scholar 🏰 edits at IHLR, JCMS 📝 perpetually sleepy 💤 she/her 🏳️⚧️ jennessahester.com
@karenapsmith.bsky.social
Taught HE over 25 years, Dep Head Cass Art School. Film/Media scholar, programmer, writing on cinemas/cult/horror/music/neighbourhoods/audiences/gentrification/ScalaCinema UCL+KCL Lived opposite Grenfell Tower for over 20 years 💚 W10 to WKen London
@sjjphd.bsky.social
I study race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social Opinions definitely my own
@thelesbianmafia.bsky.social
VERY VIOLENT GANG! Heard shouting 'Let them eat c*ck!' Challenging parts of the LGBTQFU script too Listen here: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thelesbianmafia
@marcelstrobel.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara | Former Duane Rath Endowment Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Queer German Studies | Queer Archives | Transgender Identities | Sexuality & the Holocaust
@epvcjournal.bsky.social
Early Popular Visual Culture (EPVC) is a peer-reviewed, academic journal dedicated to stimulating research and interdisciplinary studies in relation to all forms of popular visual culture before 1930. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/repv20
@usefulnoise.bsky.social
Skeet so much they call me Billy Ocean. Subscribe to Racket, or at least read it. https://racketmn.com/author/keith-harris
@clgildersleeve.bsky.social
adjunct professor in comparative literature & cultural studies. wrote dissertation on haitian & cuban writers. community member & organizer. auntie. lover of animals, plants, water, nature. pedestrian, anti-car culture. ambivalent user of social media.
@jacquelinereich.bsky.social
Dean (for four more months), Professor, Film scholar, rescue dog lover, proud LGBTQ+ mom, and New Yorker through and through. All opinions expressed are my own and do not represent any organization with which I am affiliated.
@nwbaer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of German, UC Berkeley | Book: Historical Turns (UC Press, 2024) | Edited Volumes: Technics (Amsterdam UP, 2024), Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019), The Promise of Cinema (UC Press, 2016)
@mihailova.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, School of Cinema, San Francisco State University. PhD, Yale University. Co-president of the Society for Animation Studies. 🇧🇬 Research areas: animated media, AI, visual effects, video games. Latest: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944430
@uclaftvarchive.bsky.social
A division of UCLA Library. Dedicated to preserving moving image history. The second-largest archive of original film and television materials in the U.S. Free screenings at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum 📽 cinema.ucla.edu
@daynarama.bsky.social
queer media performance artist video essayist current SSHRC postdoc former FRQSC postdoc https://daynarama.com/
@michellekisner.bsky.social
Freelancer/critic. Physical media enthusiast and essayist. Member of the Michigan Movie Critics Guild. Contributor: Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome, Error_4444, Severin, Umbrella, Second Sight, BFI, Kino Lorber, 88 Films, Imprint, Terror Vision
@mambolica.bsky.social
I am a museum curator and PhD Candidate studying community museums, veteran experience, Cdn WWII radar history, memory, and secrecy, but mostly I'm sassy, opinionated, and post about my cat. @mambolica on most platforms she/her #museums #history 🇨🇦🇺🇲
@cdaze.bsky.social
Aussie/Euro Film Archivist, Preservationist and enthusiast. Specialising in all things Analogue film - repair and identification. Also a Professional Gin drinker and pop culture gossip.
@linelangebek.bsky.social
Writer, Swimmer, Viking-in-hiding, sometimes Danish. She/her. #TheGirlWiththeNeedle, a MUBI release, in theatres and online now. Rep: Casarotto Ramsay & Associates New here.
@chicagofilmsociety.org
Screening 35mm, 16mm, and the assorted larger and smaller -mms since 2011
@jamesmjharrison.bsky.social
BBC Archive Researcher & AP on Features & Arts progs. Celebrating cinema via @SWSilents, @FilmNoirUK #FilmNoirFest 🏴
@tupur.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Global Film and Media,University College Dublin. Media Industries/Feminist Media Studies/Architecture + Design/Digital Cultures. Book Review Editor, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Author: Projecting Desire https://tinyurl.com/mrx58k
@mirandadj.bsky.social
💻 UMN GWSS & American Studies 📚 Author of Against the Romance of Community and Debt to Society 🌲 Stanford MTL PhD
@pembrokecenter.bsky.social
An interdisciplinary research center at Brown University focused on gender & sexuality. Research/Teaching/Archives http://linktr.ee/pembrokecenter
@blomamsterdam.bsky.social
(almost ex-) lecturer Comparative Arts & Media Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Personal website, blog, research, publications, & vitae: https://ivoblom.wordpress.com/
@renethoreau.bsky.social
Career academic and cinephile. Picturegoer. Vitagraph enthusiast. Phantasmagourmand. Rarebit fiend. Supporter of civil liberties.
@kwazana.bsky.social
I write about food. Mom. Professor, c19 US and gender studies department chair. Moroccan Arab Jew. Radical diasporism. Winner of the James Beard, Lora Romero, Best Book in Food Studies and Choice Awards. “Can Run Meetings” 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
@wendyallisonlee.bsky.social
Not the novelist or the other Wendy A. Lee. Director of Academic Programs and Outreach, Pembroke Center, and Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brown University
@bdcmuseum.bsky.social
Welcome and explore with us some of the treasures from the UK's leading moving image museum, based at the University of Exeter. Free to visit and open 10am to 5pm every day. www.bdcmuseum.org.uk #FilmSky #🎥 #cinemahistory
@chipam.bsky.social
Professor in Department of Film, TV and Theatre, University of Notre Dame
@pelletieroscope.bsky.social
@sarahgleesonwhite.bsky.social
English prof @ University of Sydney. American literature and film. New book: Silent Film & the Formations of US Literary Culture: Literature in Motion (OUP 2024). Working on Wallace Thurman.
@nontheatricalscms.bsky.social
Official page of the Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group of @SCMStudies. Sign up for our newsletter! https://necs.org/news/calls-for-papers/new-newsletter-from-scms-nontheatrical-film-and-media-studies-sig
@vivvychoi.bsky.social
Ethnographer | Co-Conspirator Writing with Light | Assoc. Professor St Olaf College Disasters, Environmental Justice, Indian Ocean Worlds, Sri Lanka… Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka out May 2025 (DUP) Discount code: E25VCHOI
@wandastrauven.bsky.social