Ayanna Dozier

ICYMI because we live in hell: tix are on sale the premiere of my film, which I spent eight years making so I could have the PERFECT EXCUSE to screen it with a bunch of other medieval bangers!!!!

🔔 HEAR YE 🔔 HEAR YE

REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE opens @anthologyfilm.bsky.social on 3/27 with a medieval series of my fav flicks!

Watch the trailer! See the film!!

Add'l screenings in April to be announced!!

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HELL YES!!!!!

Thanks to everyone who came out on Tuesday night for the North American premiere of "Revelations of Divine Love" at Semaine de la Critique de Montreal! Showing in a double feature with Olivier Godin's "Oublie pas le gruau" was truly the treat of treats, I love this wacky freezing town!

CURRENT BUENS Wu axes street outreach on Mass/cass. Endorses fines and stay-away orders.

Tensions at Mass. and Cass spark debate over how to help people struggling with substance abuse Aid workers say stronger enforcement undermines efforts to help people on the streets, but the city says its approach is working. By Chris Serres Globe Staff, Updated December 30, 2025, 6:00 a.m. | 〜 A photo of two women hugging On Dec 30th, the Boston Globe dropped a story surrounding mounting hostility towards street outreach workers by law enforcement.

Mayor Michelle Wu and admin are increasingly pushing enforcement over harm reduction. Civilian outreach groups distributing winter clothing, food, Narcan and hygiene supplies report being Yelled at, followed by police, and ordered to leave while doing lifesaving street outreach.

TL;DR: THERE IS BLOOD ON WU'S HANDS. • Boston is fining and banning street outreach • Shelters are full during a freezing, wet winter • Harm reduction is being pushed out by force This does not create safety. It cuts off Narcan, HIV-Prevention, warmth, food and trusted care from sex workers and people who use drugs. When shelters are full, when outreach is criminalized, when survival is punished, People die

Mayor Wu’s administration @mayorwu.boston.gov is trying to ban street outreach at Mass & Cass, targeting the very people who help street based sex workers and drug users stay alive.

This is cruel abandonment by policy. We will continue our street outreach despite this.

Harley was my former editor so it’s a pleasure seeing her write about fashion & its socio-political impact. Dilara is a designer I used to love for how she integrated sx work culture into her designs. Now, via her poor workplace ethics & aligning with fascist barbies, I can see that it was a grift.

So Jaqueline Stewart’s Migrating to the Movies is a helpful resource to understand what that landscape looked like as it was the driving factor for it that then bled into morals around sex, morality, and religion.

Basic details that tend to get overlooked is that most of the Hays Code was used to appease Southern States’ desire to not see miscegenation (or Blk ppl frankly) onscreen. Many of the cases that challenged the internal + state censorship (& failed) prior to Rossellini’s film fought it on that basis

How a "Sacrilegious" Film Changed Hollywood Forever... YouTube video by Be Kind Rewind

I lecture about this in my film studies classes, it’s origins go back to the Film Mutual Corp case vs. Ohio in 1918 that the supreme court ruled film was not protected by free speech & was a business that could be used for evil.

A entry primer would be this video:

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Revelations Of Divine Love - Novos Cinemas Revelations of Divine Love, unha historia alternativa e psicodélica de paixón, peste e revoltas, narra a historia real de Xuliana de Norwich, unha mística do século XIV que se converteu na primeira mu...

A specter is haunting Europe…. (It’s my movie)!

REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE screening at the 10th edition of Novos Cinemas in Pontevedra on Dec 12!

Once again honored to be the sole US film among the official selection!

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So happy for Onyeka but I think it’s irresponsible for the committee to make them spilt the award. If you’re going to award two winners then fund those winners with the expected amount, you make it happen. This is not touching the fact on how bad it looks for the two Blk artists to have to share.

London ppl: Go see this movie! I’m also in it for a lil bit, lol.

I wrote about Angelo Madsen’s A Body to Live in for Film Comment.

I’ll list it!

A white woman with long brown hair, a white blouse and long shiny mauve skirt, standing in front of a blue sign with tropical flowers reading Welcome to the National Women's Studies Association's 45th Annual Conference! AN HONOUR SONG: FEMINIST STRUGGLES, FEMINIST VICTORIES San Juan, Puerto Rico November 18-16, 2025

Wrapping up the NWSA conference @theenwsa.bsky.social - it was such a pleasure to present my work on sex worker subjectivities in Argentina & Ecuador, & hear from and meet other sex work scholars like @dozierayanna.bsky.social, @lena-chen.bsky.social , Lauren Levitt, Brit Schulte, Kassandra Sparks…

A screenshot from my article that reads: "At its essence, film distribution depends on a checklist of external validation. Before an independent film is selected for distribution, there is often an inquiry into whether it has received a New York Times review, a feature at Sundance or another established festival, or is beloved by an independent curator. This exporting of taste for institutions to corroborate binds film distributors to an echo chamber of white sensibilities and away from a unique point of view and ongoing accountability. Inversely, Black spectatorship of cinema has remained a duty akin to Black civic participation. For generations of Black moviegoers, cultural participation is a divine order, a calling to protect Black cultural heritage in a way that mirrors the commitment to Black voting rights. Whether it's feeling a duty to line up for the latest Black film release or starting our own awareness campaigns for Black media, Black cultural participation moves all media forward. If this is true, why haven't the worlds of distribution and Black cultural participation successfully met across time?"

for blackstar's SEEN journal, i had the honor of writing about becoming the country's largest black film distributor and the history of racist practices that keeps black film distribution locked up in a cyclical prison.

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PLEASE SHARE!: As a UT Austin African and African Diaspora Studies PhD alum, I stand in solidarity with the faculty, staff and current undergraduate and graduate students of the departments of Black Studies, Gender Studies, and Latino Studies. I have had the pleasure of interacting with all of these departments and stand with my fellow UT Austin Black Studies grad alums as we say “ABSOLUTELY NOT!” to the elimination of these departments. UT Austin AADS helped me sharpen as not only a scholar/thinker and educator but also as an artist and someone involved deeply in community organizing. I have developed life-long bonds with the people who come from this department and can genuinely say that I would not be the person that I am today without the friends and colleagues that I have made that adhere to and honor this great tradition of Black Study. Without this program, I would not have become as specialized in diasporic notions of Black feminist, queer and trans studies. Without this program, I would not have been trained to ask critical questions of myself, these orders and the world. Without this program, my teaching would have been uncritical, unimaginative and without rigor. And without this program I would not have become a Black Sexualities tenure-track professor. Though challenging, UT Austin African and African Diaspora Studies made me PREPARED. Myself and others will NOT stand for this and we ask all who will listen and all who are willing to support by spreading this information and saying NO WAY and ABSOLUTELY NOT to the elimination of these NECESSARY DEPARTMENTS. WE WILL FIGHT THIS! Do not allow for UT Austin to cower to state pressure and eliminate necessary departments that consider the survival of our people. #saveUT #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

This weekend I had the pleasure of screening "Revelations of Divine Love" for the esteemed scholars of the International Anchoritic Society & Early Middle English conference at Brandeis! Believe me folks, there is no tougher room than one filled with medievalists! And they dug it!!

I’ll lead a listening exercise/lecture on Blk women’s sonic sensualities & sufferings at Wendy’s Subway (9/18). I’ll talk about my new manuscript on Blk sx workers’ influence in music culture/honor the 5th anniversary of my book on Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope
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Episode 5 Pt. II - Make Batman Gay Again with Ayanna Dozier Scholar, curator, artist, and Batman expert Ayanna Dozier, Ph.D., joins us to talk about the Caped Crusader and queer comic history.

And/or you can hear me yap for almost two hours on the Screen Slate podcast below. Both, like Batman & Robin, are good fun!

www.screenslate.com/articles/epi...

Batman of the 1990s (or, Batman Needs an Enema!) Batman needs an enema! One only has to take a cursory look through police department Facebook pages to see Batmanphilia in full effect, with particular emphasis on the Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyde...

I will be at the 8PM showing. And for those who want more background on queerness in Batman, you can read my essay on 1990s Batman cinema on Screen Slate.

www.screenslate.com/articles/bat...

Batman & Robin (1997) — Low Cinema A stunning ensemble cast — George Clooney, Chris O’Donnell, Alicia Silverstone, Uma Thurman, Arnold Schwarzenegger — star in easily the most maligned film in the Caped Crusader canon. While it was...

tonight (July 29th) I will introduce Batman & Robin, one of my favorite films, at Low Cinema in Ridgewood. I’ll briefly speak on how Schumacher cites and extends on queer cinema of both Pre and Post code Hollywood. Come out, if only for the A/C, lol.

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Connexions Françaises: Caroline Golum at FIDMarseille 2025 For nearly four decades now, the Cote d’Azur’s foremost festival of experimentation has occupied a cherished niche in the international avant garde filmmaking community. Just down the road a spell fro...

"Hey Caroline, how'd it go with the World Premiere of 'Revelations of Divine Love' at FIDMarseille?"

Your burning question, ANSWERED, over at
@screenslate.bsky.social:

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I wrote about erotics & process in the work of Paul Mpagi Sepuya for Family Style Magazine. I’m not really into writing art profiles anymore but this was an exception as a photographer I want to be able to be able to dig into process with other photographers.

www.family.style/art/paul-mpa...

This is exactly why people who labor in the s3xual ec0nomy are isolated, harmed or worse, m*rdered.

Said differently, wh0res cannot actually be r*ped or violated. That’s what that ruling just determined.

Anti-Blackness performed a work within this case.

This case pretty much said Cassie and the Jane Doe are pr0stitutes so therefore they were participants in their own violation and undoing.

That conflation between s3x w0rk and prostitution is how we get here. This where the whore disfigure enters.

For the last six years, I have sat with this work and can share that “The pornographer and the party” has officially been published by Women & Performance journal.
Rest in Peace to Kenneka Jenkins 🤍.

#blackstudies

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