www.thestar.com/life/health-...

A Prince Edward County drive-in just sold for $1.25 million. Here’s the new owners’ plan The Mustang Drive-in PEC has been running since 1945. Here’s what the new owners have in store for it.

www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Love a student prank. April Fools! #universityoftoronto

Justices Reject Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors

The Supreme Court is not evidence based, and it is determined to despoil queer lives. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Thank you @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social for making this happen! I am so grateful for our community.

Hey @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social members! Please join @fsc.bsky.social, the trade organization for the adult industry. For 30+ years, FSC has fought the legal, legislative, & cultural battles that determine what gets made, what gets seen & now, what gets studied. www.freespeechcoalition.com/scholars

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Fantastic interview from @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social. Josh Cheon of Dark Entries Records has created a record label that resuscitates and honours the music of gay porn composers, whose work helped pave the way for techno and other electronic dance music. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Happy birthday, Maurice Merleau-Ponty 🎂

Come see my talk, "Artificial Tumescence: AI's Porn Fantasy"
at the Centre for Culture & Technology on March 23 from 6 - 8pm

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society."

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Fellow adult industry scholars, join @fsc.bsky.social! For over 30 years, FSC has fought the legal, legislative, and cultural battles that determine what gets made, what gets seen – and, now, what gets studied. We need their support, and they need ours! www.freespeechcoalition.com/scholars

Thank you to all the fabulous people who helped make this happen!

This fantastic collection will support screenings of adult film. It will be an invaluable resource when I teach Adult Film Histories next year. The publisher is offering a 20% discount with the code 26AFLY1. @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social

If you're thinking of buying The Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media, @intellectbooks.bsky.social is offering a 30% discount with the code INTELLECT30. @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social

Le temps de chien: Stray exposures in shadow of Vesuvius In 1870 Giuseppe Fiorelli and his team of archaeologists produced a plaster cast of a bubble in the earth in the ruins of Pompeii, revealed to be a dog, which they designated watchdog of the House of ...

In a few weeks, if you're in Toronto, stop on by... This is different from the other two talks I've given at U of T this year on stray thinking...
www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/le-te...

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

If you're around Stanford today at 5pm, come hear me talk about electronic payment and the sex industries! shc.stanford.edu/stanford-hum...

Come to the book launch for The Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media (2026) and Screening Adult Cinema (2025), sponsored by the SCMS Adult Film and Media SIG.

If you're near Stanford next week, come see my talk at the Stanford Humanities Centre.

State of the industry. #AVN2026

My content is so exclusive you have to wait for peer-review. 😉

Hello #AVN2026

Opinion | Americans Are Turning Against Gay People

Americans Are Turning Against Gay People www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

LGBTQ+ Americans are going back in the closet under Donald Trump: report Nearly half of LGBTQ+ adults (47.5 percent) report being less out somewhere in their lives over the last 12 months.

Nearly half of LGBTQ+ adults report being less out somewhere in their lives since Trump was re-elected. www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-s...

🎉 Now available for purchase! Tell your library! The Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media, a comprehensive overview of the field, edited by Peter Alilunas, Patrick Keilty, and Darshana Mini. intellectdiscover.com/content/book... 🎉

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These Toronto archivists are preserving rare and classic films for generations to come: ‘Why do all the work if nobody gets to see it?’ Christina Stewart and Rachel Beattie help maintain the University of Toronto's film library. The school's Pop-Up Cinematheque will be screening a 16-mm print of 'Singin' in the Rain' on Jan.

Terrific article highlighting the fantastic work of our colleagues at the Film Library and Media Archives at the University of Toronto to preserve film and media history! www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

If you're in the Santa Cruz area, I am giving a talk at UCSC Film and Media Studies on January 27 at 5pm: film.ucsc.edu/events/2026/...