Porn Studies Volume 13, Issue 1 of Porn Studies

'Sex in Contemporary Media', a special issue I co-edited with the wonderful Harri Charles is now out in Vol 13 of Porn Studies!

Featuring our editorial and a selection of incredible papers (if I may say so myself).

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/1...

A brief cinematic history of Frankenstein’s Bride as a feminist icon New film The Bride! brings the character to life in moody 1930s Chicago.

New film The Bride! brings the character to life in moody 1930s Chicago.

I’ve been binging it this weekend and COMPLETELY agree!!!

Thanks Matt! And thanks for all the Bride film recs!

I’m absolutely obsessed with this character and her feminist potential in her many (!!!) iterations (too many to feature them all here). As I’m finishing editing my final thesis chapter on Poor Things, it was great to share a small part of her history for this piece.

A brief cinematic history of Frankenstein’s Bride as a feminist icon New film The Bride! brings the character to life in moody 1930s Chicago.

My article on the history of the Bride has been published in @uk.theconversation.com tying in with the release of The Bride!

theconversation.com/a-brief-cine...

Bridgerton season four explores sexual and class power dynamics more than any season before Benedict Bridgerton has fallen for a woman from a different class and his class power complicates the issue of consent.

Benedict Bridgerton has fallen for a woman from a different class and his class power complicates the issue of consent.

Bridgerton season four explores sexual and class power dynamics more than any season before Benedict Bridgerton has fallen for a woman from a different class and his class power complicates the issue of consent.

Really excited to share my first article for @uk.theconversation.com! theconversation.com/bridgerton-s...

The film is part of the Care BTS strand from the Handle with Care! season, contracted by @alpember.bsky.social and myself. See the website for more screenings as part of the season!

Care BTS: How to Have Sex + Panel discussion - Warwick Arts Centre Molly Manning Walker’s startlingly frank, stylish debut follows three teenage girls on a rites-of-passage holiday.

Join us at the #WarwickArtsCentre for a screening of How to Have Sex, followed by a Q&A with Enva Lewis (cast) and Jen Odell (intimacy coordinator) which I’ll be chairing.

www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/q88...

We've just sent round details of our Spring Schedule for the SIG but our next event is 18th February on Adaptation and Franchises with @polinazelm.bsky.social and Seren Rose Sonnell. DM if you didn't get the email and want the zoom link.

Some wonderful work and presentations on the special issue on sex and the Hollywood production code this evening. Looking forward to reading the full articles!

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Film and scholar community! I’m looking for case studies for my final thesis chapter. Please send my way any recommendations of film/TV that explore sex on screen in a fantasy setting/element. Time travel, sci fi, horror, fantasy - anything Anglophone made between 2017-present.

Frances McDormand in Zhao's "Nomadland" (2020)

🎬 Call for Papers 🎬
We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more!

Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa
Please share!
#CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky

It was when JK Rowling said that the Cass Review was a peer review itself and that's why it didn't need to be peer reviewed I realised she's an idiot.

Anyway, here's a peer review of Cass.

Guess what it finds?

Had the most amazing time at the #SpottingRedFlagsSymposium talking about The Ultimatum with my friend and colleague Ellie Smith!

Had a great time presenting at the Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment (COSME) PGR Symposium at the university of Liverpool on Monday. My paper on sex and colourblind casting in Bridgerton won the best paper award, topping off an already fab day!

Awesome keynote address today from Prof Diane Negra. Absolute treat!

Congrats Joe!!

School of Sexuality Education reviews Adolescence — School of Sexuality Education The Netflix series, Adolescence , was released just over a month ago. As a charity delivering relationships and sexuality education (RSE) in schools, the show centered many topics that are important ...

For anyone interested in a persoective from RSE edicators on why screening Adolescence in schools is not a good idea or a solution to tackling misogyny and inceldom. Great piece from a colleague at the School of Sexuality Education schoolofsexed.org/blog-article...

UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010 The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.

The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010

www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

Thanks so much Matt!

Thanks Alice!!

Between agency and victimhood: Adult Material and screening the female porn performer in the #MeToo era The porn star figure has typically occupied a polarizing position within media and feminist discourses, being a symbol of either agency or victimization. This article explores the way the televisio...

My new (and first!) article 'Between agency and victimhood: "Adult Material" and screening the female porn performer in the #MeToo era' is now out on @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social. Available on open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This was such a fun panel for the @screeningsex.bsky.social SIG at #BAFTSS2025 with @polinazelm.bsky.social, Donna Peberdy, and Belén Salinas Torres! I discussed the representation of hook-up apps and their media archaelogies in recent Spanish romantic comedies on streaming

Super great panel on feel bad TV at #BAFTSS2025 organised by @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social, that ended here:

Huge congratulations to Chris O’Rourke for winning the Best Article Award at BAFTSS 2025!

Always a pleasure to deliver our SIG sponsored panel at @baftss.bsky.social conference. Big thanks to @polinazelm.bsky.social for convening and chairing. Super presentations given to a packed room who had plenty of questions. Job done!

My fourth BAFTSS! #BAFTSS2025

@screeningsex.bsky.social SIG panel this morning at #BAFTSS2025! Had a really great discussion and Q&A and looking forward to more informal chats later! Massive thank you to all the panelists and the generous audience who joined us so early in the morning!