New Queer Film blog post now live girliessss ! Check out some rogue and occasionally cheeky meditations on these sweet sweet flicks at the link in my bio xoxo
Such an unbelievably lovely and nostalgic trip to Bournemouth for the BAFTSS conference. What a stimulating few days of wonderful papers and presentations - made all the better by my giggle buddy @jameslslattery !!!! We r so silly :L!!! What a pleasure to catch up with so many of my lecturers (and supervisors!) at BU: Claudy, Austin, Max, Laura, James, and to meet another lovely ex-BU doctor-to-be, Frieda. Feel quite emosh about the whole thing when academia is in such a state of disrepair and precarity. This might be my last conference for some time, now that I am unaffiliated (for now..!), so I don’t take this for granted. Education should not be a privilege, but unfortunately that seems to be the case only more and more. This was the perfect crescendo to a period of study that I have cherished and been so incredibly lucky to have been afforded. The BAFTSS team did an amazing job here - it felt effortless, which is almost always a sign of immense effort. What fun that was. Onwards, I guess 😭🫣🫶 (also swipe to see me loudly gesticulating with Dyer watching over my talk 🤪)
Queer film blog March 2026 is now live - annual BFI Flare special!!!!! Get the goss on the films I caught at this year’s festival: its 40th Anniversary! 🎉✨🤩 Check out the link in description 🫶🫶🫶
I know this ain’t no Linkedin but I did a crazy thang and I canne help myself!!! Gave a big mumma lecture at BFI Flare’s 40th Anniversary on the history of the festival - it was terrifying and the most wholesome experience ever. Big thanks to the fam and friends that came (and to the others that I LOVE but that couldn’t nab a ticket in time). This was so real, love everyone, love the BFI, love the queers, love!!!!!!
New Queer Film Blog Jan 2026 post is liveeee ! Taking a peek at some fascinating early trans representation with John Dexter’s I Want What I Want (1971) and Bob Kellett’s Girl Stroke Boy (1972), I return to the Taiwanese master Tasi Ming-liang with What Time is it There? (2001), as well as spilling some thoughts on a (politically contentious) queer Israeli film, Out in the Dark (2012). Have a read at the link in my bio, and feel free to give me a subscribe too 🤪🤩🫣
Back-to-back France with friendz galore: ft. Europe’s tallest (but NOT longest) sand dune, an extremely understated iced coffee receptacle, and ai’s take on our hiking anxieties of a ghostly stalker in a black robe (check faces)
So I handed in my PhD thesis today (still have viva, eeek) but quite blaady surreal!! A big milestone for one happy boi researching queer film !! So many wonderful people I have encountered on this journey…Onwards !! 🏳️🌈🥳☀️🏳️⚧️🌿✨🇵🇸📄🍉🌚
