Our first keynote of the conference! We're thrilled to be joined by Luca Stevenson from the ESWA for his talk titled 'Recent Advances and Setbacks of the Sex Workers’ Rights Movement'. #SCMC2023

Our final panel of the day is SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND FEMALE SEXUALITIES. We're really looking forward to the cross-disciplinary discussion! #SCMC2023

We've had such an incredible and inspiring day! Thank you to all attendees and presenters and looking forward to doing it all again tomorrow! #SCMC2023

Very excited this morning to be presenting my ongoing research on dating apps/romantic love at Sex in Contemporary Media Conference🥰

SCMC Day 2 is underway with our first panel titled SEXUAL PEDAGOGIES AND AUTHENTICITY. We're looking forward to another exciting day! #SCMC2023

The second panel of Day 2 is TRANSGRESSIVE PLEASURES AND FUTURES. We're excited for the interdisciplinary conversation as the papers will be speaking about various media forms including TV, Literature and Videogames #SCMC2023

We're thrilled to welcome our second keynote of the conference, @susannapaasonen who will be presenting a paper titled 'In a Sea of Dicks: On the Limits of Porn'. Join us for the talk at 3pm BST! #SCMC2023

Incredible talk from @susannapaasonen on the limits of porn, equally incredible use of the eggplant emojis (because not everyone might want to see dick pics after lunch!). #SCMC2023 Sex in Contemporary Media Conference

We're wrapping up Day 2 of SCMC with the panel 'PORNOGRAPHIES' which explores various aspects of pornography and audiovisual constructions of desire. #SCMC2023

That's a wrap on Day 2 of #SCMC2023 ! Another fantastic day covering everything from pornography to asexuality and dating apps. Thank you to all of our fantastic speakers and participants. We're so inspired by the work and conversations taking place!

Congratulations to all the organisers of the Sex in Contemporary Media conference on their third and final day. There was a panel of Warwick academics this afternoon presenting on ‘Horniness and Sexual Affects’ including Matt Denny, Julie Lobalzo-Wright and Danielle Rae Childs.

The last three days have been SO incredible! Massive thanks to everyone who presented, attended and of course to my fellow co-organisers. #scmc2023

Thank you to everyone who joined us online and in person at University of Warwick yesterday! We've had such a rich final day of presentations and a fantastic final keynote from Clarissa Smith. Thank you to all presenters and participants for such insightful conversations! #scmc2023

It’s been so much fun helping put this conference together with an amazing group of pgrs 🥹 also chairing a panel on horniness is going to be a life highlight… I can leave academia at peace 😌

Our launch event will be taking place on the 19 October 5pm BST on Teams. DM or email us for the Teams link! dzacariotti.wixsite.com/sex-queer-netw…

Our launch is at 5pm BST today! Email us at [email protected] if you need the Teams link. We’re excited to share what we have planned for this year and meet other scholars studying sex and queerness! After the virtual meeting we will be heading to a Varsity.

📢 Announcing the 2024 GDC conference: Global Digital Intimacies! 📢 Taking place on June 27-28 in Amsterdam - read more details and the call for papers here globaldigitalcultures.uva.nl/content/news/2…

Save the Date for our first event of Term 2. We are thrilled to be collaborating with Warwick Comics Research Network, and discussing Emerging Trans Voices in Comics. This event is set up as a reading group led by Dr Ash Kayte Stokoe from the University of Birmingham.

Check out this CFP for Global Digital Intimacies which may be of interest to our conference participants!

Join us and Warwick Comics Research Network for our Emerging Trans Voices in Comics reading group on the 7 February at 5pm. No experience required, open to staff and students of all levels. Email us at [email protected] to reserve your place and receive the extracts.