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What is Trans Film (To Me)?

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AJ Castle Stony Brook University

November 20, 2025

becomes normality of the next era. […] So, I think I’m fascinated by the creativity of what is it to be ...

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Lag(ging): Erykah Badu and J Dilla's Temporal Strategies

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Lynette Mawolu Dixon UCLA

November 19, 2025

performance/practice neo-soul Curator's Note “Liberation, if there is such a thing, is possible in the interval as ... Therefore, within the lag before emancipation, Keeling identifies an opening, a space of possibility that ...

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Sounding the Alarm: Canadian Academics, American Reality TV Labor, and Constrained Participation

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Wendy Peters Nipissing University

November 17, 2025

eighteen-hour drive north of Atlanta, Georgia. I had been excited by the possibility of travelling to Atlanta, ... and thus should have access to employee protections, including minimum wage and the possibility of ...

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NiGHTS into Dreams: Trans Animation and Mythic Landscape

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Evelyn Ramiel York University of Toronto

November 05, 2025

going as quickly as possible, but it is also possible to play with the Nightopian denizens of the world. ... precepts of Jungian archetypal myth, the game’s animation opens up its trans possibilities. Language plays ...

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The Queer Animations of Barry JC Purves

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Ferdinando Cocco University of Cambridge

October 29, 2025

possibility of the mise en abîme shines through all of the four films Purves came to produce after Next: ...

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Tracing Queer Animation’s Forms and Practices

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Jacqueline Ristola University of Bristol

October 27, 2025

Present,” a two-week blog post series examining a range of animation to sample the diverse possibilities to ... Flowers of Evil: Exploring the Philosophical Possibilities of Rotoscoped Animation.” Animation Studies ...

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