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Robert Mills is a lecturer at the University of Southampton with a focus on queer visual cultures and contemporary critical political theory. His research particularly emphasizes the history and historiography of queer activism on screen, as well as underground experimental media cultures. Currently, he is working on a monograph that examines the interplay of history, theory, and politics in a spectrum of oppositional media practices that emerged in the decades following the AIDS crisis. This ambitious project aims to trace the cultural reverberations of numerous shifts in queer thought and direct-action from the 1980s and 1990s, reflecting on how emergent oppositional sentiments have transformed the drift of narratives from street to screen. He has published articles in notable journals including JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies and Discourse: Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media Culture. Robert is also in the initial stages of developing a research project focused on queer film history and abolitionist thought, further analyzing historical intersections within queer screen cultures and critical race theory.