Feminist Networks and the Conjuncture

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.Click here for the episode transcript FeaturingSarah Banet-Weiser Moya Bailey Sponsor:Annenberg Center for Collaborative CommunicationMore from our guests:  Sarah Banet-WeiserDistinguished Professor  | Annenberg School for CommunicationUniversity of PennsylvaniaProfessor | Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern CaliforniaDirector | Center for Collaborative Communication at the Annenberg SchoolsTwitter - @sbanetweiserMoya BaileyAssociate Professor | Department of Communication StudiesNorthwestern UniversityDigital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy NetworkBoard President, Allied Media ProjectsTwitter: @moyazbIG: @transformisogynoirWorks 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. Click here for the episode transcript. FeaturingSarah Banet-WeiserEva HagemanLaurie Ouellette Sponsor:Annenberg Center for Collaborative CommunicationMore from the host & speakers: Sarah Banet-WeiserDistinguished Professor; Professor | Annenberg School for Communication; Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern CaliforniaTwitter - @sbanetweiser Eva HagemanAssistant Professor in the Department of American Studies and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesUniversity of MarylandLaurie OuelletteProfessor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Department ChairUniversity of MinnesotaTwitter: @ProfOuelletteFacebook: Laurie OuelletteInstagram: @lauriejean2016Works 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 LampertDominic BonelliExecutive 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.  Click here for the episode transcript FeaturingSarah Banet-WeiserSarah J. Jackson Sponsor:Annenberg Center for Collaborative CommunicationMore from the host & speakers: Sarah Banet-WeiserDistinguished Professor; Professor | Annenberg School for Communication; Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern CaliforniaTwitter - @sbanetweiser Sarah J. JacksonPresidential Associate Professor; Co-Director | Annenberg School for Communication; Media, Inequality & Change CenterUniversity of PennsylvaniaTwitter - @sjjphdWorks 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 BarnumJo 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.  Click here for the episode transcript FeaturingSarah Banet-WeiserCarrie RentschlerEmily Colpitts Sponsor:Annenberg Center for Collaborative CommunicationMore from the host & speakers: Sarah Banet-WeiserDistinguished Professor; Professor | Annenberg School for Communication; Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern CaliforniaTwitter - @sbanetweiser Carrie RentschlerAssociate Professor | Department of Art History & Communication StudiesMcGill University Twitter - @RentschlerCEmily ColpittsSSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Art History & Communication StudiesMcGill University Twitter - @emcolpittsWorks 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 BarnumKate In

The International Communication Association presents the ICA Podcast Network, where we’re grappling with questions about how to navigate, transform, and make sense of a changing world. Our podcasts will bring together scholars and practitioners from around the world to showcase the most exciting and important work in our field and amplify researchers, educators, and advocates who are underrepresented in our field.  We're so excited to introduce One World, One Network‽, Interventions from the Global South, Architects of Communication Scholarship, Digital Alchemy, Feminist Networks and the Conjuncture, Ask Us Anything, Growing Up Comm, JCMC: The Discussion Section, and Communicating for Impact. Visit our website to learn more and listen to each podcast. 

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. Click here for the episode transcript FeaturingSarah Banet-WeiserFrancesca SobandeJilly Kay SponsorsAnnenberg Center for Collaborative CommunicationMore from the host & speakers: Sarah Banet-WeiserDistinguished Professor; Professor | Annenberg School for Communication; Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern CaliforniaTwitter - @sbanetweiser Francesca Sobande Lecturer | School of Journalism, Media, and CultureCardiff UniversityTwitter - @chess_ess @CardiffJomec @cardiffuni Jilly KayLecturer | Department of Media and CommunicationUniversity of LeicesterTwitter - @jillybkay @deptmedialeicWorks 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. FeaturingSarah Banet-WeiserSimidele DosekunSrila RoySponsor:Annenberg Center for Collaborative CommunicationMore from the host & speakers:  Sarah Banet-WeiserDistinguished Professor; Professor | Annenberg School for Communication; Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern CaliforniaTwitter - @sbanetweiser Simidele DosekunAssistant Professor | Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics Twitter - @MediaLSE Srila RoyAssociate Professor |  Sociology and Development StudiesUniversity of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaTwitter - @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.