Feminist Comedy
A celebration of feminist writers who say and think smart things about comedy (and who are also very funny!!!).
Created by
@hennefem.bsky.social
@kmaw.bsky.social
Film nerd, history nerd, nerd-nerd. Overworked adjunct. Mom to 1 human and 1 cat. Author of Comic Venus: Women & Comedy in American Silent Film
@laurabondia.bsky.social
Film scholar, journalist, comic-liebhaber https://encadenados.org/
@kristenwarner.bsky.social
Professor, Researcher, Irascible teapot. Expertise in film/media studies as it relates to black folk, employment/labor, representation and RESONANCE. Yes the plastic representation. Yes the sonic visibility. I still don’t watch sitcoms. Except shrinking.
@realsambee.bsky.social
HOW TO SURVIVE MENOPAUSE live show. Podcast: Choice Words Newsletter: Plan Bee on Substack samanthabee.komi.io
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@chescaleigh.bsky.social
tv writer, actress, living in the city of angels, singing about leopards. shop.franchesca.net
@jennpozner.bsky.social
Media critic, journalist, anti-racist feminist Author: Reality Bites Back **Media literacy graphic novel coming soon! Founder: Women In Media & News Speaker: DM to book keynotes/workshops Commentary:ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/VICE Comedy nerd Brooklyn She/Her
@dfmorgan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies. Little Black girl from Durham.
@hahumiaomiao.bsky.social
Professor of Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz, posing as a cat
@movieprofessor.bsky.social
@femmediahist.bsky.social
Feminist Media Histories examines the role gender has played in media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Published quarterly by UC Press.
@fuscowrites.bsky.social
English Professor and Writer by Day, Faculty Coach and Developmental Editor for Humanities Scholars by Night (at twilight and dawn I think a lot about motherhood and pop culture) Oh, and I run a free cowriting room! www.katherinefusco.com/events
@amethystjazz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota; Chinese & Korean cultural studies; media, ecologies, phenomenology; comedy. Sound and noise, signifying everything.
@clubdesfemmes.bsky.social
We are a queer feminist collective who curate film screenings & events. Happenings & new writing 👉 www.clubdesfemmes.com
@marktwain.bsky.social
Devoted to supporting & promoting Twain Studies scholarship through Quarry Farm Fellowships, Quadrennial Conference, Trouble Begins & Park Church Lectures, Quarry Farm Fall Symposia, The American Vandal Podcast, MarkTwainStudies.com, & more.
@lalouverouge.bsky.social
author, “cool mom,” adjunctified phd books: Comedy Against Work (Common Notions, 2022), Fag/Hag (Rosa Press, 2024) next book: Solidarity with Children (Haymarket, 2025)
@silentlondon.bsky.social
A place for people who love silent film. https://silentlondon.co.uk/
@katesac.bsky.social
Silent cinema, curating, and feminist practice and theory at the University of Amsterdam; project manager/editor, @WFPProject.
@jmbean.bsky.social
assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
@aladyofchance.bsky.social
Lecturer in Film, would-be time traveller & ever-aspiring Yiddishistke. Film history, fan studies, movie magazines & Norma Shearer.
@jamesleocahill.bsky.social
Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice.
@stephbrown.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Com and Media Studies @ Washington College | current Delawarean | I do work on gender, space, media, and belonging and also comedy studies | she/her
@sugi.bsky.social
Writer. BROTHERLESS NIGHT: http://randomhousebooks.com/books/57844/
@alfredmartin.bsky.social
Detroit native. Associate Professor and Chair of Cinematic Arts at U of Miami. Author of The Generic Closet, Fandom for Us, by Us, and editor of Rolling.
@laurah.bsky.social
Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: Girls Will Be Boys (2016). she/her (white cis queer)
@lclaberge.bsky.social
Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
@suchmayer.bsky.social
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. TRUTH & DARE out now with @cipherpress.bsky.social 💘 SPACE CRONE (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 💜 Website & newsletter: somayer.net.
@brandymp.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Communication + Media Studies @ Fordham U; Scholar of Black popular media, television and film, digital culture, and celebrity
@sayanniething.bsky.social
culture writer, editor @ LARB, mother in the DC suburbs // here for the nuanced takes, the good faith arguments, and the jokes
@cinemiasma.bsky.social
film scholar + critic | books abt 60s sex films, global cinema, place | in '25: The Prop (Fordham); Wanda (BFI); toiling: Cinemas of Exhaustion | teach @ King's College London | post-soviet newyawker, ekphrastic perfume fiend | elenagorfinkel.com
@vsturtevant.bsky.social
Media Studies Faculty. Author of It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy. Always up to talk comedy, gender, popular media, and reproductive politics. https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330449/
@mattseybold.bsky.social
Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Lit & Econ
@cinementalist.bsky.social
Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
@pamhutch.bsky.social
Critic, historian, curator | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
@bonniehonig.bsky.social
PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic, and a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind). New article on Singin in the Rain ☔️ and Sorry to Bother You 🐴 out now in Cultural Critique
@thehighsign.bsky.social
Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
@hennefem.bsky.social
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