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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 8h

Who’s going to host the Topside Trans Women Writers Workshop 10 Year Anniversary Celebration this Summer, I got a story about Eugene, Oregon I could read

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy for you!

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 2d

our talk is called Escape from the Midnight Realm

Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 25d

Buffalo! I'll be in town Oct. 26–27 for a screening of I Saw the TV Glow at Hallwalls and a trans studies symposium at UB. Both are free and open to the public. I'm hosting the film with @amymarvin.bsky.social and we'll be doing a joint talk about it at the symposium.

Event flyer. Screening and talkback of I Saw the TV Glow, Oct. 26 at 6PM at Hallwalls. Trans Studies Symposium Oct. 27 9AM to 5PM at UB with hybrid zoom access. All free and open to the public.

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 4d

A little sick today after getting double flu / COVID vaccines but I’m excited that it gave me time to read the new Power Fantasy comic

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 4d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 5d

My new zine, Distance Montage, is available through the Other Spaces bandcamp. Seven poems and seven facing images inspired by Artavazd Peleshian.

All proceeds support further work by trans artists, writers, and musicians on space, place, time, and moment.

otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/isobel...

Isobel Bess – Distance Montage from Other Spaces

otherspaces.bandcamp.com

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 8d

Finally going to teach the Feminist Theory course next semester

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 8d

Didn’t become a big pop culture deal until Man Who Would Be Queen and Jorgensen still wouldn’t have been around for it

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 8d

The public always wants its Silence of the Lambs, now with extra anachronism (Jorgensen passed in 1989, autogynephilia didn’t become pop culture theory until 2003)

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 8d

Oh my

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 9d

Pulled out this record to celebrate finally watching Tár

Record: Mahler is Heavy, featuring Mahler’s 7th and 4th. Has a cool psychedelic owl for some reason

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 10d

Gradually ship of Theseus-ing my discontinued 2017 Panasonic vacuum

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 11d

Making the government think I’m spreading gender ideology when I’m actually spreading affect theory

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 13d

mockup cover design for the zine I've been working on, a collection of poems and images inspired by the films and theoretical writings of Artavazd Peleshian

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 19d

There was a larger push to defund the arts over Tongues Untied (it aired on PBS)!

Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 19d

I was trying to find the one with parts of Tongues Untied in it!

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 19d

If the Bush senior administration was running today I bet it would be “read my lips… no new transsexuals” !

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 19d

You’d think the life of an LGBTQ studies professor is glamorous but I just watched every single 1992 campaign ad and interview for Pat Buchanan

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 20d

Saw a squirrel kill and eat a mouse today

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 25d

No not yet!

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 25d

Oof really didn’t like The Substance

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 25d

Beautiful autumn day in upstate New York picking up strawberry rhubarb pie at the historic cider mill getting my order of winter tires and making arrangements for the cat just in case the government labels trans critics as terrorists

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zøë wolfe 🏳️‍⚧️ @glitchwolfe.studio · 27d

WE MAKE THE TV GLOW is finally up on Archive for you all to enjoy!! Please share this far and wide. The world needs trans art, now more than ever.

Made with love, from @aesnos.bsky.social and friends 💕

archive.org/details/we-m...

Owen and mom peer into a glitchy hallway

Maddy, bitcrunched, talking about the pink opaque

king woman, screaming into a mic, but orange and crunchy

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 25d

Buffalo! I'll be in town Oct. 26–27 for a screening of I Saw the TV Glow at Hallwalls and a trans studies symposium at UB. Both are free and open to the public. I'm hosting the film with @amymarvin.bsky.social and we'll be doing a joint talk about it at the symposium.

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 25d

Excited to be part of this *incredible* trans studies lineup in Buffalo next month!

Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 25d

Buffalo! I'll be in town Oct. 26–27 for a screening of I Saw the TV Glow at Hallwalls and a trans studies symposium at UB. Both are free and open to the public. I'm hosting the film with @amymarvin.bsky.social and we'll be doing a joint talk about it at the symposium.

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zøë wolfe 🏳️‍⚧️ @glitchwolfe.studio · 26d

Really surreal reading this as our government tries its hardest to make being trans as miserable an experience as possible

Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · Jun 18

New essay: "Atmospheres of Conversion" - We argue that trans films (The People's Joker & I Saw the TV Glow) frame anti-trans conversion as central to cis society and that creating trans art spaces is one way to fight back! Written with @echosequence.space Preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/MARAOC-16

Atmospheres of Conversion: Trans Cinema, Tactics, and t4t Sociality

Amy Marvin and Isobel Bess

Author preprint. Forthcoming in philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Transcontinental Feminism. Please cite the final published version when available.

Abstract: This essay draws from recent trans films to map a social atmosphere of anti-trans conversion beyond the discrete set of social, medical, and psychiatric practices normally discussed in this context. To explain this phenomenon, we introduce a permeating organizational maxim of cis society we refer to as the Silenic imperative: that it is best to not live as trans, and second best to cease living as trans as soon as possible. The People’s Joker and I Saw the TV Glow depict this permeating atmosphere of conversion within mass culture, constituted by and constitutive of spaces in which trans existence is systematically threatened and repressed. By staging atmospheres of conversion, both films likewise stage tactics of trans resistance that open new spaces for trans sociality. We consider how these films frame attempts to navigate and resist atmospheres of conversion, considering trans-for-trans (t4t) sociality as a site of both escape and failure. We conclude by considering trans cinema itself as a site of tactics against atmospheres of anti-trans conversion in our own world and as a source for life-sustaining sociality. This is especially important within the contemporary atmosphere of cis society and its attempts to suffuse and snuff out all trans life.

Keywords: Atmospheres; Conversion Therapy; Queer and Trans Film; Practice Theory; t4t

“This isn’t the Midnight Realm, Maddy, it’s just the suburbs.”
-Owen, I Saw the TV Glow

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