we wanted to share a few recent + upcoming articles to keep an eye out for 👀💡 a thread of interesting new work in gender, media, and platform studies....

I’m so happy to see this article finally out in FMS 💜🌸💅🏻(Un)Girly girls: reimagining femininity on Japanese TikTok www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨🗣️ Here is the link to register for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium Second Edition 💕🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔥 a free and online event (May 19 to 22) with 20+ participants and three awesome keynotes ✨😎 Program below and at the link here 👉 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...

Students Continue Blockade of Public Broadcaster Despite Police Intervention www.masina.rs/eng/students...

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

I wrote for Pursuit about the biggest water cooler moment of the year so far, Adolescence, and its portrayal of the manosphere: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/wha...

✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀 📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at [email protected]✨ Share widely!

From Stacktivism to Platform Alternatives: A critical analysis of the state of the contemporary network culture by Prof Geert Lovink (I enjoyed bleak dystopian memes that speak volumes about the world today)