so sad about this. had the honor of volunteering at brown's feminist archive years ago, exclusively working with her materials. an experience that meant a lot to me. she was awesome. she took pornography & dismissed genres seriously at a time when it was seen as a betrayal to women to do so
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1/7 It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of Linda Williams, a pioneering scholar whose fearless work transformed film and media studies. Over her remarkable career, Williams challenged scholars to take seriously popular and often marginalized genres,
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