Feminist Networks and the Conjuncture – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode of Feminist Networks and the Conjuncture, Dr. Moya Bailey and Dr. Sarah Banet-Weiser discuss how Dr. Bailey coined the term “misogynoir”, her publications and digital work expanding upon the term as well as its real-life implications and possible solutions. Dr. Bailey further discusses her work in digital spaces and elaborates on her framework of social media as containing overlapping, generative, digital neighborhoods with the capacity to produce real-life social activists and transformational work.

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Featuring

Sarah Banet-Weiser 

Moya Bailey 

Sponsor:

Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication

More from our guests: 

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Distinguished Professor  | Annenberg School for Communication

University of Pennsylvania

Professor | Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism 

University of Southern California

Director | Center for Collaborative Communication at the Annenberg Schools

Twitter - @sbanetweiser

Moya Bailey

Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies

Northwestern University

Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network

Board President, Allied Media Projects

Twitter: @moyazb

IG: @transformisogynoir

Works Referenced in Episode: 

Jackson, S. J., Bailey, M., & Welles, B. F. (2020). # HashtagActivism: Networks of race and gender justice. MIT Press.

Bailey, M. (2021). Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance. New York: NYU Press.

Perry, I. (2018). Vexy Thing. In Vexy Thing. Duke University Press.

Duffy T. P. (2011). The Flexner Report--100 years later. The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 84(3), 269–276.

Collective, C. F. (2011). Crunk Feminist Collective.

Copy and Audio Editor:  

Jo Lampert 

Sharlene Burgos 

Executive Producer: 

DeVante Brown 

In this episode, host Sarah Banet-Weiser talks with Professor Eva Hageman and Professor Laurie Ouellette about their work on representation in reality TV and on identity in social media, respectively. They discuss how contemporary media impose a script for living but also offer a platform for social change. They problematize the social impact of reality TV by pointing out how some TV shows offer medical and financial resources to families who have been neglected by state institutions, but they also point out how this requires families to play the role of marginalized people.

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Featuring

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Eva Hageman

Laurie Ouellette

Sponsor:

Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication

More from the host & speakers: 

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Distinguished Professor; Professor | Annenberg School for Communication; Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism 

University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern California

Twitter - @sbanetweiser

Eva Hageman

Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

University of Maryland

Laurie Ouellette

Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Department Chair

University of Minnesota

Twitter: @ProfOuellette

Facebook: Laurie Ouellette

Instagram: @lauriejean2016

Works referenced in episode: 

Ouellette, L. (2017). Bare enterprise: US television and the business of dispossession (post-crisis, gender and property television). European Journal of Cultural Studies, 20(5), 490-508.

Ouellette, L. (2019). Spark joy? Compulsory happiness and the feminist politics of decluttering. Culture Unbound, 11(3-4), 534-550.

Ouellette, L., & Hay, J. (2008). Better Living Through Reality Tv: Television and post-welfare citizenship. Blackwell Pub. 

Hageman, E. C. (2019). Debt by Design: Race and Home Valorization on Reality TV. In Mukherjee, R., Banet-Weiser, S., & Gray, H. (Eds.). Racism postrace. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Jo Lampert

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

In this episode, host Sarah Banet-Weiser talks with guest Sarah J. Jackson about the feminist ethics care work in academia. They discuss how the responsibility of care work falls most heavily on women and people of color, especially when supporting students of the same marginalized identities. They also talk about balancing care work in personal lifes, and how institutions could adopt feminist ethics to create a more forgiving environment for caregivers. 

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Featuring

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Sarah J. Jackson

Sponsor:

Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication

More from the host & speakers: 

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Distinguished Professor; Professor | Annenberg School for Communication; Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism 

University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern California

Twitter - @sbanetweiser

Sarah J. Jackson

Presidential Associate Professor; Co-Director | Annenberg School for Communication; Media, Inequality & Change Center

University of Pennsylvania

Twitter - @sjjphd

Works referenced in episode: 

Jackson, S. J. (2014). Black celebrity, racial politics, and the press: Framing dissent (p. 218). Taylor & Francis.

Jackson, S. J., Bailey, M., & Welles, B. F. (2020). # HashtagActivism: Networks of race and gender justice. Mit Press.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Lucia Barnum

Jo Lampert

In this episode, host Sarah Banet-Weiser talks with McGill researchers Carrie Rentschler and Emily Colpitts about how attitudes against gender-based violence (GBV) are changing. They examine how colleges respond to sexual violence on campus, and how student activism plays into university policy. They also discuss the intersection of social media in preventing GBV — and whether such technology can truly disrupt systems of sexual violence. 

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Featuring

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Carrie Rentschler

Emily Colpitts

Sponsor:

Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication

More from the host & speakers: 

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Distinguished Professor; Professor | Annenberg School for Communication; Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism 

University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern California

Twitter - @sbanetweiser

Carrie Rentschler

Associate Professor | Department of Art History & Communication Studies

McGill University 

Twitter - @RentschlerC

Emily Colpitts

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Art History & Communication Studies

McGill University 

Twitter - @emcolpitts

Works referenced in episode: 

Mitchell, C., & Rentschler, C. (2016). Girlhood and the Politics of Place (p. 354). Berghahn Books.

Rentschler, C. A. (2011). Second wounds: Victims’ rights and the media in the US. Duke University Press.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Lucia Barnum

Kate In

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In this episode, host Sarah Banet-Weiser talks with guests Francesca Sobande and Jilly Kay about their recent research, including how Black women in Britain are creating their own digital spaces. They discuss the history of how women’s voices have been silenced in public spaces, from the ducking stool to the NDA, and the nuances of when silence becomes an active form of presence. They also discuss femvertising and the role of capitalism in feminist media — focusing throughout on the importance of parsing the contradictions of feminist scholarship.

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Featuring

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Francesca Sobande

Jilly Kay

Sponsors

Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication

More from the host & speakers: 

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Distinguished Professor; Professor | Annenberg School for Communication; Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism 

University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern California

Twitter - @sbanetweiser

Francesca Sobande 

Lecturer | School of Journalism, Media, and Culture

Cardiff University

Twitter - @chess_ess @CardiffJomec @cardiffuni

Jilly Kay

Lecturer | Department of Media and Communication

University of Leicester

Twitter - @jillybkay @deptmedialeic

Works referenced in episode: 

Kay, J. B. (2020). Gender, media and voice: Communicative injustice and public speech. Springer Nature.

Sobande, F., & Sobande, F. (2020). Why the Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain? (pp. 1-27). Springer International Publishing.

Emejulu, A., & Sobande, F. (2019). To exist is to resist: Black feminism in Europe. Pluto Press.

Sobande, F. (2022). Black oot here: black lives in Scotland. Bloomsbury Publishing.

In her first episode, host Sarah Banet-Weiser talks with guests Simidele Dosekun and Srila Roy about Me Too and whether it can be described as a “movement.” They explore Me Too’s marketization, its transnational implications in India and Africa, and how describing it as a generational battle is an oversimplification.

Featuring

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Simidele Dosekun

Srila Roy

Sponsor:

Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication

More from the host & speakers: 

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Distinguished Professor; Professor | Annenberg School for Communication; Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism 

University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern California

Twitter - @sbanetweiser

Simidele Dosekun

Assistant Professor | Department of Media and Communications 

London School of Economics 

Twitter - @MediaLSE

Srila Roy

Associate Professor |  Sociology and Development Studies

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Twitter - @ProfSrilaRoy 

Papers/Journal referred to in episode:

Dosekun, S. (2020). Fashioning postfeminism: Spectacular femininity and transnational culture. University of Illinois Press.

Roy, S. (2022). Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India. Duke University Press.