Two in one day? Whoa!

Spectacle or support? The complicated visibility of trans youth in film & TV - Queerty The following is an excerpt from the new book "Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds" by Laura Horak and available now from University of California Press.

Please enjoy this great excerpt of TRANS CINEMA— by @laurah.bsky.social and out now!—that appeared on @queerty.com yesterday. www.queerty.com/spectacle-or...

QTC Book Event series invites you to join an exciting event:

📚📍 May 1, Friday at 1:00 PM EST:
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social
Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

Registration: us05web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Hope to see you all there!

Laura Horak, a white woman with wavy brown hair to her jaw and glasses, holds up two books: TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR.

My new books - TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR - are both out today!

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@transmediaportl.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social @carletonfass.bsky.social @carleton.ca

today!!!

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Thanks everyone who came out to help us Smash the Patriarchy at the @plazaatlanta.bsky.social last night!!!

Join us at 2:30 pm at Emory U for a talk by co-curators @hennefem.bsky.social & @laurah.bsky.social on their research behind the larger project... 🎞️🎊🎶

Atlanta! Don't miss this amazing screening of @nastysilents.bsky.social at @plazaatlanta.bsky.social on Tuesday, with scholars/curators @hennefem.bsky.social + @laurah.bsky.social in person!
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If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

Trans Cinema Doesn’t Just Improve Visibility—It Imagines Better Worlds Author Laura Horak on the power and possibility of trans-made cinema today.

Some thoughts on this Trans Day of Visibility www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t... #TDOV

UC Press authors @alicelovejoy.bsky.social (TALES OF MILITANT CHEMISTRY), @laurah.bsky.social (TRANS CINEMA), and @allyfield.bsky.social (ACTS OF LOVE) threw a lovely and packed book party Friday night for #SCMS26, with a special appearance from EVERYDAY MOVIES author Haidee Wasson!
#SCMS2026 🎞️

If you're attending #SCMS26, don't forget to check out the University of California Press table @ucpress.bsky.social where you'll find my book, ARCHIVING THE PAST, in excellent company with new fantastic titles by Allyson Field @allyfield.bsky.social, Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social, and more 😍

Trans Cinema Doesn’t Just Improve Visibility—It Imagines Better Worlds Author Laura Horak on the power and possibility of trans-made cinema today.

@laurah.bsky.social wants us to go beyond trans visibility in cinema by envisioning better worlds.

For #SCMS26, Laura Horak, author of TRANS CINEMA, tells us about the power of platforming trans innovation in film: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...

#TransDayofVisibility

Poster with four people dressed like Pat from SNL dancing on a beach. Text reads "Film screening & talk with Laura Horak, author of Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (2026) WE ARE PAT 2025 / 92 minutes / USA Director: Rowan Haber Writer: Rowan Haber, Hannah Buck Saturday, March 14h 4:00 p.m. Ottawa Art Gallery iFFo"

Ticket giveaway! 🎟️🎟️🎟️ Repost to be entered into a drawing for a free ticket to this screening. Winners notified on Friday. For more about the event: www.iffo.ca/2026/we-are-...

Happy International Nasty Women's Day!!!! No better way to celebrate than by nabbing your copy of these **feminist film books**--extant & forthcoming--by our curators and sisters! 😍🎞️📚

Links in the comments below... What feminist films books are lighting up your life right now? ⁉️

Poster with four people dressed like Pat from SNL dancing on a beach. Text reads "Film screening & talk with Laura Horak, author of Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (2026) WE ARE PAT 2025 / 92 minutes / USA Director: Rowan Haber Writer: Rowan Haber, Hannah Buck Saturday, March 14h 4:00 p.m. Ottawa Art Gallery iFFo"

If you're in Ottawa, come to our screening on Saturday, March 14th! After the movie, Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social will be talking with Tom McSorley about her new book, TRANS CINEMA: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (2026)! www.iffo.ca/2026/we-are-... @ottawaartgallery.bsky.social

Fantastic mail day! Congrats @laurah.bsky.social!

#unboxing advance copies of my new book!!! #TransCinema @ucpress.bsky.social

I love it! I just watched Big City Blues, too!

Moviemaking Before Men | Playgirl Elinor Glyn, June Mathis, Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber: The many women who achieved dazzling success in the first years of Hollywood.

"These women used mass media to critique the damaging effects of unfettered capitalism on women’s lives."

Love this piece by @laurah.bsky.social:

Moviemaking Before Men | Playgirl Elinor Glyn, June Mathis, Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber: The many women who achieved dazzling success in the first years of Hollywood.

Great piece by WFPP contributor @laurah.bsky.social!

playgirl.com/entertainmen...

Moviemaking Before Men | Playgirl Elinor Glyn, June Mathis, Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber: The many women who achieved dazzling success in the first years of Hollywood.

It was only a matter of time before the Nasty Women infiltrated Playgirl Magazine!! Great piece by our own @laurah.bsky.social.

playgirl.com/entertainmen...

1910 E4 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! @laurah.bsky.social wrote Girls Will Be Boys so it makes sense that much of our discussion deals with the transgression, or lack thereof, of cross-dressing women. It's a rich topic! Plus: the electricity of Asta Nielsen in her debut. Links 👇

Here is an excerpt from my conversation with @laurah.bsky.social about THE ABYSS for The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever: 1910. Links in quoted post!

Lecturer or Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, School for Studies in Art and Culture (Film Studies) - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Planning) About the Position The School for Studies in Art and Culture invites applications for a one-year appointment at the rank of Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, beginning 1 July 2026, from q...

Want to come work in my Film Studies department in Ottawa, Canada, for a year? Application deadline is March 6. All areas of specialization welcome. Please spread the word! @carleton.ca carleton.ca/deputyprovos... #filmstudies #jobopportunity

TRANSGENDER MEDIA PORTAL Donations doubled this Giving Tuesday up to $5450! $263 raised out of $5,450.

We're almost halfway there! Help us out! All donations matched dollar-for-dollar! futurefunder.carleton.ca/campaigns/su...

Members of the TMP team holding a pink banner with the Transgender Media Portal name and trans symbol logo at the 2024 Ottawa Trans March. On top of the image is the text “Dollar-for-dollar matching this Giving Tuesday!”

Fight trans invisibility this Giving Tuesday!

The Transgender Media Portal is a free online database made and maintained by a lab of student scholars—and we need your help. Your donation will be matched, dollar for dollar!

Donate today at futurefunder.carleton.ca/campaigns/su...

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Are you a fan of the 1978 film THE WIZ? I would LOVE to chat with you about your fandom for a book on THE WIZ. You only need to be 18 years old or older and love the film. DMs open and please share.

This was so fantastic! Lined up beautifully with some of the issues we were discussing in my Queer and Trans Art HIstories class so I might have to add it to the "Dr. R. has a problem" pile on our CMS (which already has work by @laurah.bsky.social and Eva Hayward in it!)

"The theme was Dressed for Chaos: Costumes, Nasty Women and Social Change. But what does that mean? Well, it means a fun, informative, often rousing hour in the company of silent comediennes, and three women who dearly love them." @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social