Sending support as a fan of your work, horror scholar and fellow autistic 🖤

Filmmaker Michelle Garza Cervera is helping change that. With award-winning work like “Huesera,” she’s pushing boundaries and proving that new perspectives elevate storytelling. Read more: geenadavisinstitute.org/spotlight/mi...

Women are redefining horror—but they’re still vastly underrepresented behind the camera. Studies estimate women make up less than 6% of all directors in the horror genre.

This is a superb interview...

These Streets Are Ours: Beeston In our latest edition of love letters to Nottingham neighbourhoods, local wordsmith Matt Turpin, editor of The Beestonian magazine, discusses the creative melting pot of Beeston.

Another brilliant article by @beestonia.bsky.social in @leftlion.bsky.social. These are some of the many reasons I moved here; and I love it.

leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

I AM HORROR – INTAKE FORM I AM HORROR is an editorial archive documenting creators of color working within the horror genre across the global diaspora. Participation in the archive means your work, declaration, and material…

Today, we launch I AM HORROR.
A global archive documenting creators of color shaping the horror genre across disciplines and continents.
The work exists.
The archive should, too.
👻 📽️ 📺 🎭 📚 🌎
Submissions are now open:
nighttidemag.com/iamhorrorjoin/

No surprises but still infuriating evidence of the resistance to changing the inequalities of media industries

In an Oscar first, the nominated sound team behind “Sirāt” is entirely female: supervising sound editor Laia Casanovas, re-recording mixer Yasmina Praderas, and production sound mixer Amanda Villavieja.

CfP: conference “Scream@30”. Dec 16, 2026 @ Bangor University, UK. Deadline: June 1, 2026 Scream@30 An in-person academic conference hosted by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies, Bangor University, UK 16th December 2026 Wes Craven’s Scream (1996) changed the face of horror…

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73 years old and still delivering career highs: This year, Delroy Lindo is nominated for his first Oscar for his role in “Sinners,” proving that a remarkable career doesn’t lose momentum with age.

#Oscars #seeitbeit #DelroyLindo

Glad to see this finally coming out! My review from last August: redocumented.ghost.io/melbourne-in...

‘SINNERS’, THE BAFTA SLUR, AND AWARD SHOWS THAT STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH BLACK ART Jimmy Kimmel lying onstage through Quinta Brunson’s win, Adrien Brody kissing Halle Berry without consent, cameras dissecting Angela Bassett’s composure. Award shows have a documented history of mi…

These snafus didn’t start this month.
Hattie, segregated. Sidney, “acceptable.” Halle? Still the only Black woman to win Best Actress.
@sharai.bsky.social examines how awards shows keep mishandling Black art & artists, and why we’re tired of being told to move on. 👻📽️
nighttidemag.com/2026/02/26/h...

Critical Approaches to the History of East and Southeast Asian Contributions in the British Screen Industry Seeking a researcher/practitioner with experience for a PhD on East and Southeast Asian contributions to British film/TV, exploring practices, lived experiences, initiatives, and creative activism.

Fantastic funded PhD studentship on "Critical Approaches to the History of East and Southeast Asian Contributions in the British Screen Industry" with Kings College and the BFI

www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

Wheels on the ground, worlds in motion: an introduction to transcultural fandom in East Asia. Guest editors: Henry Jenkins and Kedi Zhou (University of Southern California, USA)

This article introduces the special issue "Transcultural Fandom", with a focus on China, Korea, and broader contexts beyond East Asia, bringing together researchers to explore how fandom travels across cultural, linguistic, and political borders.

Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1177/1367...

Unmissable!

Lilian Bader: one of the first Black British women in the Royal Air Force by Lucia Wallbank In 1990, a group of African and Caribbean ex-service personnel appeared on an episode of the BBC television show ‘Hear-Say’. One woman explained why Britain’s Black citizens chose to take up arms i…

#OTD Lilian Bader was born in 1918. Read Lucia Wallnak’s blog on ‘one of the first Black British women in the Royal Air Force’.
womenshistorynetwork.org/lilian-bader...

#WomensHistory #GenderHist

This Special Issue seeks to provide a space in which academics and practitioners can share scholarship, reviews and articles centred around the complex and wide-ranging field of video games intersecting with horror.

Deadline: 1 April 2026

Find out more 👉https://ow.ly/Ufx250Y9g6V

She deserved more and is one of the MANY reasons the industry biases are hurting all of us.

Thanks @momoshaty.bsky.social and @nighttidemag.bsky.social for creating a space for this piece to live!

I know he can’t see me but that doesn’t mean I’m not done talking to him.

Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds; The peer-reviewed Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds explores the cultural effects of gaming and virtual worlds across platforms and genres, as their increasing...

Special Issue of Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

'Video Games & Horror’

Abstract deadline: 1 April 2026
Full article draft deadline: 28 July 2026

www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-g...

Call for Papers for Special Issue: "Digital Darkside" — DIGSUM We are seeking contributions to a special issue of JDSR (Journal of Digital Social Research, jdsr.io ) on the topic of digital darkside .

Following the Digital Darkside symposium at The DIGSUM Centre for Digital Social Research at Umeå University last year, I'm co-editing a special issue of Journal of Digital Social Research on the topic of digital darkside.

For further info see the CFP at www.digsum.org/digsum-feed/...

Deadline for proposals - January 30th

Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University

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Sometimes you just have to feel the feels without knowing why. Solidarity and support 🧡

Call for Papers

Scream@30

An in-person academic conference hosted by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies, Bangor University, UK

16th December 2026

The deadline to submit abstracts is 1st June 2026.

www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

EJAE has been nominated for a Golden Globe for Original Song (‘KPop Demon Hunters’), becoming the first Korean American to earn this honor. This is a massive milestone for API representation in entertainment and a moment worth celebrating. 👏

#GoldenGlobes #KPopDemonHunters

When women on screen age, their roles often shrink—and their appearances become plot points. Our research shows that on screen, women over 40 are:

🧑‍💼Less likely than men to have an occupation
🪞More likely than men to be shown engaging in cosmetic procedures

My own experience of menopause outing my neurodivergence ended my career and probably my working life. Making this known more widely could help prevent this happening to others.

DON’T DO THAT: GIVE HORROR WHERE HORROR’S DUE Black horror is too often boxed in, trimmed down, or miscategorized to fit a narrative that feels safer for the mainstream. Sinners pushes back against that instinct, insisting on the fullness of i…

Black horror is often confined, simplified, or misclassified to fit a safer mainstream narrative. @lmariewood.bsky.social digs into how Sinners challenges that tendency, emphasizing the full scope of its perspective. 👻📽️📚
nighttidemag.com/2025/12/07/s...

Nottingham celebrates ten years as a UNESCO City of Literature with a spectacular gala on 1 December In 2025, Nottingham turns the page on a remarkable chapter; ten years as a UNESCO City of Literature and the charity is throwing a party worthy of Nottingham’s words!

Our friends at Nottingham City of Literature are celebrating 10 years of their UNESCO status next month with a big party at Metronome. Here's all you need to know and how to be part of it...
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As we look toward next year & make preparations for horror events, organizers, I IMPLORE you to diversify your Women in Horror panels!
Perspectives are SO important in the genre, so let me help you. Starting off:
160 BLACK WOMEN IN HORROR.
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