After more than 25 years of co-founding and co-editing Feminist Media Studies, @cindylcarter.bsky.social will be stepping down from her editorial role later this year.

Fresh from production! ✨Another exciting article is one step closer to publication in Feminist Media Studies: "Seeing (Post)feminism Through Visual Style: The Case of Pro-Woman Advertising in China" by Joey Chan.

Fresh from the production queue! Another exciting article is making its way to Feminist Media Studies: 📱 "Governing Sexism on TikTok: Ambiguities and Tensions in Community Guidelines and Corporate Communication" by Runge.

A little celebration for the Feminist Media Studies community! 🎉 We are excited to share our latest journal metrics:

Call for Papers :: Commentary & Criticism Special Issue -- Fantasy, Fae, and Life-Altering Sex: Feminism and Romantasy Romantasy is having a cultural moment. From #BookTok and publishing to fandoms and reading communities,

Coming soon in Feminist Media Studies!

Keep an eye out for this forthcoming article :: “Sun, Sea, and Sexism on Love Island: Twitter (now X) Responses to ‘Laddish’ Masculinities and Misogynistic Discursive Distancing on Television” by Haslop. Really excited to read this work on gender, platform discourse, and reality TV culture.

Coming soon! Maria Brock’s “Rape nation: tropes of sexual violence and rape fantasies in far-right ‘Sweden-memes’” examines how sexual violence is mobilized within far-right digital cultures and meme ecologies. A critical and timely intervention. Stay tuned!

New work to keep on your radar! • A Tale of Two Harleys: The Aestheticization and Subversion of Gendered Violence in Superhero Films (Rudolf) — examining how superhero films frame, stylize, and potentially challenge gendered violence

Forthcoming in Feminist Media Studies 👀✨ • Ambivalent Masculinities: Digital Culture, Precarity, and Disaffection in the UK Screen Industries — Lee Examines how precarious labor conditions in UK screen industries shape ambivalent forms of masculinity and disaffection.

Sharing!! ICA Pre-Conference on Intersectional Political Economy. Check out the upcoming ICA 2026 pre-conference that may be of interest to those working in feminist media studies, political economy, and related areas:

New in production at FMS... Györgyi Horváth’s “Women’s Digital Grassroots in Hungary” explores feminist organizing under illiberal rule and the strategies shaping digital activism. One to watch out for!

spotlighting our current issue of feminist media studies ✨ so many pieces in this one that feel especially timely right now… from #freebritney and feminist counterpublics to influencer labor, trans athletes in media, and the messy politics of popular feminism

What are your all-time favorite pieces published in Feminist Media Studies? Or your favorite article you’ve published with us? Drop the link below 👇We’d love to revisit and reshare some of this incredible work across our Bluesky community!

In my new article for @femmediastudies.bsky.social , I look at TikTok's notorious 'old-age' filter and analyse women's reactions to it. Thanks to the editors, as always! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New readership, citation, and Altmetric highlights from Feminist Media Studies 📊 Our work continues to travel widely across scholarship, policy spaces, digital publics, and news media! Here are a few recent snapshots:

Feminist Media Studies colleagues, I was looking at the most read and most cited articles in Feminist Media Studies this week, and the patterns are striking. A short thread on what seems to be shaping the field right now:

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Excited to share a set of upcoming feminist media studies articles engaging questions of gender, platforms, labor, archives, games, fandom, and digital culture!

We’re thrilled to share that Feminist Media Studies reached 906,904 full-text downloads in 2025, continuing steady growth in global readership! Quarterly downloads • Q1: 237,296 • Q2: 237,480 • Q3: 176,124 • Q4: 256,004

So excited for this upcoming article by Samson Eze, “Nobody Be Like Woman,” publishing soon! A powerful look at Nigerian popular music as a space where gender justice is argued, imagined, and fought for.

We hope everyone had a good holiday and a happy new year! We’re doing the best we can over here and are excited to share what’s coming up in Feminist Media Studies ✨ Upcoming article --> Domesticity Reloaded: When the Tradwife Becomes a Brand by Ayşenur Karakaş Aydınbakar and Canan Çetin

4/5 I published my magnum opus on confession and hot priests (now in need of a Knives Out update) in @femmediastudies.bsky.social

Coming soon: Betty Wilson et al.’s new piece, In Search of a Soft Life: Anti-Black Capitalism, Patriarchy, and the Movement for Black Women’s Health Equity, a powerful look at soft life, Black women’s health equity, and the structures that deny rest. Excited for this one!

Excited to share that a new article is coming out soon: “From Salad Bar Feminism to Denotative Portraiture: How Neoliberalism Shapes Feminism in AI-Generated Visuals.”

📢 Keep an eye out for this upcoming article: “The Relationship Between Celebrities and Body Image Ideals Among Hispanic and Black Women” ✨

!! New article coming soon !! “Archiving Digital Activism Against Sexual Violence: The Challenges for Ethical Witnessing in Research Practice” by Kaitlynn Mendes et al. -Explores how researchers can ethically engage with and preserve digital activism against sexual violence. Contact: [email protected]

🌸✨ feminist media studies continues to grow! ✨🌸 in Q3 2025 alone, articles from feminist media studies were downloaded 176,124 times — bringing us to 650,900 total downloads so far this year!

Upcoming article by Susie Kilshaw & Caroline Coyer: “More time, more pain, more blood”: Creating accurate and diverse accounts of miscarriage in British TV and film. A vital look at how screen media can tell these stories with honesty and care. Coming soon!!

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....

A personal note: This paper was a long journey! We first submitted it in March 2023, and after a long and rigorous review process, it's finally seeing the light of day in September 2025. A testament to persistence! Huge thanks to the patient editors & reviewers at @femmediastudies.bsky.social

📊 2025 is shaping up to be a big year for Feminist Media Studies! So far this year, our articles have been downloaded 467,837 times — and in Q2 alone, we reached 234,042 downloads, continuing our growth over the past several years:

Find my article on happy narratives in women's fashion publications in the latest issue of @femmediastudies.bsky.social alongside excellent research on media and gender from across the globe! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfms20/c...

Coming soon in Feminist Media Studies: New research from around the world exploring how gender, media, and power collide. Here's a preview of the forthcoming articles and their authors 👇

An update from Feminist Media Studies! Hi everyone — I’m Dr. Krysten Stein (she/her), and I’ve had the joy of serving as the Social Media Editor for Feminist Media Studies since 2022. I’m thrilled to continue in this role as we grow our presence on BlueSky!

My article on the effects of Tumblr's sexual content ban on the digital sugar baby community is in the current issue of @femmediastudies.bsky.social! Read it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CCZMB...

Journal metrics update! We’re thrilled to share that Feminist Media Studies has achieved a 2023 Impact Factor of 1.6 and a 2024 Impact Factor of 1.7!

Upcoming in FMS! Sara Shaban and Azeta Hatef explore diasporic activism, media representation, and feminist resistance in their forthcoming article: “Look, but don’t touch: examining Afghan women’s voices, diasporic activism, and global responses to the #DoNotTouchMyClothes campaign”

“Fair-skinned, young and slim白幼瘦” or “Kardashian-style”? In my latest paper in @femmediastudies.bsky.social, I explore how female Chinese students in the UK present themselves on dating apps. Grateful for the feedback from my supervisors @coralinglingxu.bsky.social @drannallewellyn.bsky.social

📢 Forthcoming publication! Orianna Calderón, Pilar Bravo, and Adelina Sánchez Espinosa offer a timely critical analysis of the neoliberal feminism embedded in global SVOD platforms’ inclusion policiesm--

My review of Briony Hannell's brilliant book 'Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr' is now available in Feminist Media Studies ✨ @femmediastudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Feminist Media Studies Q1 2025 Performance Update! We are proud to share that FMS articles were downloaded 233,795 times in the first quarter of 2025! 📚✨ Here's how our Q1 numbers stack up: --2022: 183,057 downloads --2023: 209,813 downloads

🎉 Coming Soon in Feminist Media Studies 🎉We’re excited to spotlight two powerful upcoming articles that push the boundaries of media and gender research:

!!Keep an eye out for this important new article!! "Women of many ‘firsts’: Novelty framing by news media of ethnic minority women politicians in Aotearoa New Zealand" by Priya Kurian (University of Waikato) – [email protected]

Upcoming Article Alert -- Women of many “firsts”: Novelty Framing by News Media of Ethnic Minority Women Politicians in Aotearoa New Zealand

New open access paper in Feminist Media Studies by Nat Kon-Yu and I. Use Barbie movie to argue for a coalitional feminism in opposition to both gender criticism and popular feminism. Please read and offer comments- both positive and negative comments are welcomed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Have to also thank the reviewers and editors at @femmediastudies.bsky.social . Brilliant suggestions to use Crenshaw, Carastathis and Cohen to support a better understanding of coalitions borne 'of practical necessity'.

a shout out from one of my favourite journals! thanks, @femmediastudies.bsky.social 💕

🌟Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Jess Rauchberg🌟 Meet @jessrauchberg.bsky.social, an Assistant Professor of Communication Technologies at Seton Hall University and a feminist media studies scholar examining inequalities in the creator economy.

New in @femmediastudies.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Fan, C. M., Guo, J., & Huang, Y. (2025). The twisted patriarchal fandom governance in China: changing media representations of fanquan nvhai (“fangirls”). Feminist Media Studies, 1–18. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/1468...