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craighaslop.bsky.social
Gay Dad. X escapee. Senior Lecturer Media, Uni Liverpool UK. Digital masculinities, GBV online, LGBT TV &PR cultures. PI ESRC funded lad culture on social media & gender disinformation.
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RIP - a genius and real disrupter in film and TV. Gutted! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees

submitted 49 days ago • 889 comments

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

submitted 49 days ago • 301 comments

New in @popcommjournal.bsky.social Proctor, J. (2025). “This one’s for the sapphics”: Mamamoo, “girl crush,” and transcultural networks through queer fan labor. Popular Communication, 1–15. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/1540...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, this simply doesn’t make sense, but is just legitimising and encouraging transphobia—there is no other way of seeing it. Trans people are a small minority and already heavily discriminated against—easy to pick on in a culture war designed to create hate and division.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Trying to avoid #traitors spoilers on holiday is not easy 😅.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

It’s important to consider the consequences of online abuse on political representation in light of the changes in meta’s moderation approach allowing more abuse and harassment to stay online.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

LGBT+ discrimination now allowed on Meta. Let that sink in. The guidelines state: “We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.”’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 59 days ago • 58 comments

Moore, M. E. “We Have Never Been Acafans: Notes Towards a Posthumanist Approach to Media Fandom”. Journal of Posthumanism, vol. 4, no. 3, Dec. 2024, pp. 177-90. #FanStudies journals.tplondon.com/jp/article/v...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to our director, @drmichellekaufman.bsky.social, who co-edited this volume of Global LGBTQ Health that received a 5-star review from Doody Enterprises, Inc. This #OAbook is the first-known book to date that comprehensively covers global LGBTQ health. Free download: bit.ly/4940e0B

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

my latest with @jessmaddox.bsky.social is out this morning in @femmediastudies.bsky.social! We propose influencer snark as a feminist media practice to address concerns of credibility, authenticity, and representation in the influencer industry. please share!!! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZSZD...

submitted 101 days ago • 6 comments

How to be a writer, #35790000: Wake at 4 am from terrifying dream Open laptop, add new and terrifying scene to WIP Go back to sleep Wake up again, read new and terrifying scene with no memory of having written it WTF, subconscious Tea

submitted 80 days ago • 72 comments

Article on LinaBell, a mascot at Shanghai Disneyland and the surrounding fandom

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I am very pleased to announce that after so many years, my article on creating WhatsApp group chats as a research method with #Eurovision fans is now published! Sadly its not open access, but please let me know if you'd like a copy :D rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

What IS cultural studies, anyway? We've asked the experts in our series "What Is Cultural Studies?" Dr. Ien Ang offers an answer in "On Cultural Studies, Again" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020):

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

New publication alert 🔔 🔔Catching up on article promotions, very proud of Fiona O’Rourke for amazing work leading on this article from the ESRC funded #ladculture research. We explore and theorise men’s homosociality in private online chat groups. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Can anyone recommend any really good writing on the aesthetics/appreciation of the post-industrial landscape, particularly (though not necessarily confined to) the UK? @illuminations.bsky.social - I feel like this might be something you could help with? New field for me - would like some guidance!

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

Call For Papers: Neither Factory Records nor Madchester: Rethinking Manchester’s Musical and Subcultural Histories: A two-day international conference-19th/20th June 2025 @ManMetUni docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

I'm recruiting a PhD student (with full funding in place) to work on the communication of uncertainty in relation to virtual testing used in engineering. The student will use linguistic analysis and social science methods but live in Engineering Dept. Plz share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Two upcoming events in Louis Cha Lecture Series on Transcultural Fandom Studies Mode: Face-to-face & Online Lecture #1: The 30 Years of China’s Online Fandom 12 December Lecture #2: Fan Translation beyond the Global North 16 December #FanStudies web.chinese.hku.hk/en/general_i...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

I’m watching #BlackDovesNetflix and I feel like the creators might have taken some inspiration from the classic 60s spy-fi TV series The Avengers. Male and female agent pair working for a mystery organisation, female agent is martial arts trained, oddball agent meet-ups …imagery…

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

NEW PUBLICATION 📣 “Researching Young Masculinities During the Rise of ‘Misogyny Influencers’: Exploring Affective and Embodied Discomfort and Dilemmas of Feminist & Queer Researchers” So proud of Betsy Milne & Idil Cambazoglu for leading on this article. 1/6 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments