Talks

(2026) ‘Women’s rage without feminist consciousness: women’s anger, anti-politics, and reactionary digital culture’. Invited talk at ‘The “Excessive” Politics of Feminist Rage and Resistance’, Goldsmiths University, May 29.

(2026) ‘God is SO back’: reactionary feminism, cultural Christianity, and the online mirror-world’. Invited talk, GEMS (Research Centre for the Study of Gender, Media, and Sexuality), Exeter University, February 11.

(2025) ‘Heteropessimism on TikTok: #boysober and the reactionary feminised digital media ecology’, invited talk at ‘Mediated Cultures of Gender, Youth, and Community’ online seminar, Oxford Brookes University, July 15.

(2025) ‘Feminism in the digital mirror-world: Reactionary feminism, post-liberalism, and “left” arguments against equality’, invited talk, ‘Creative and Cultural Industries in Times of Crisis’, University of Leeds, July 2.

(2025) ‘”Digital culture, post-liberal politics, and the rise of reactionary feminism’. Invited talk at ‘Feminism and the far-right’ Goldsmiths University, June 6.

(2025) ‘Dark Feminine Influencers and Microfascist Mirror-Worlds: Theorising the Reactionary Turn in Popular Feminism’, invited talk at The Clinton Institute, University College Dublin, February 27.

(2024) ‘The manosphere and the femosphere: gender politics and reactionary rage in the online “mirror-world”’, invited talk at the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology seminar series, Salford University, December 3.

(2024) ‘Feminism's digital doppelgangers: reactionary gender politics (and Christianity) in the online mirror-world’, Gender and Sexuality research group seminar, Aston University, November 18.

(2024) ‘Reality celebrity work and practices of care’, invited talk, University of Otago, New Zealand, on 14 October, with Eleanor Kilroy and Helen Wood.

(2024) ‘Popular feminism takes the pink pill: the manosphere, the femosphere, and the rise of reactionary feminism’, invited talk at DigiPol Seminar Series, University of Liverpool, April 17.

(2024) “Andrew Tate for girls”: dark feminine influencers and micro-fascist mirror- worlds Invited talk, ‘Techno-politics of refusal’, University of Toronto. March 6.

(2023) ‘Femcels and female dating strategists: theorising women’s anger in the communities of the femosphere’. Keynote, The Mediatization of Women’s Rage, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid. 30 June.

(2022) ‘Pink pill feminism: the rise of the femosphere’. Invited talk, JOMEC Feminist Media Studies Research Group, Cardiff University. December.

(2022) ‘Taking the pink-pill: theorising the online communities of the femosphere’. Invited talk at Monash University, July 23.

(2022) ‘Cultural commons’, invited talk at Monash University, July 24.

(2022) ‘Gender, Class and Communicative Injustice’. Keynote at De Montfort University Humanities Conference. 4 May.

(2021) ‘The Guardian and neoliberal feminism’. Invited talk at Liberalism Inc: 200 Years of the Guardian. Goldsmiths, University of London. April 24. *with Mareile Pfannebecker

(2021) ‘The media nag: the politics of women's transgressive speech in a time of backlash’. Invited talk at the Centre for Research Film and Audiovisual Cultures, University of Roehampton. April 21.

(2021) ‘Speaking bitterness’: the “nagging” voice of feminism on 1970s television’. Invited talk at the event ‘Gendered Soundscapes’, part of the ‘Sonic Spaces’ series at Trinity College, Dublin. March 2021.

(2020) Invited discussant at the BSA Emotions Study Group webinar: Anger: the Conflicted History of an Emotion, on the book by Barbara H. Rosenwein. December 9.

(2020) Invited discussant at the online launch of Feminist Media: from the Second Wave to the Digital Age, by Claire Sedgwick. University of Southampton. November 17. (2020) ‘Gender and communicative (in)justice: the politics of voice in contemporary culture’. Keynote speech at the International Webinar on Women & Media: The Changing Narratives & Identities. Women's College, University of Calcutta. September 28.

(2020) ‘Gender and communicative injustice’. Keynote talk at the ‘New Directions in Media and Sociology Research’ conference. University of Leicester, September 18.

(2020) ‘Rage within the machine: #MeToo and the possibilities of mediated anger’. Invited talk at ‘Digital Diversity in the Midst of Crisis’, Roehampton University, August 14.

(2020) ‘Feminism, the family and the private home in a time of coronavirus’. Invited talk at the Gender and Celebrity Summer School. Lancaster University, May.

(2020) ‘Feminism, Voice and Media’. Keynote talk at the Winter School: Feminism Today: Challenges, Arguments, and Issues. Center for Gender and Diversity Research at Universität Tübingen, Germany. February.

(2018) ‘Feminism and the politics of gender in contemporary media culture’. Invited talk at the ‘Still I Rise’ Study Sessions. Nottingham Contemporary art gallery. October.

(2015) ‘"It's typically feminine self-pity and nagging": rethinking the gendered communicative ethos of television talk through No Man's Land (ATV/ITV, 1973).’ Invited talk at Film, Television & Media research seminar, University of East Anglia. December 12th.