Over*Flow
Over*Flow: “I’m the Industry Baby”: The Political Economy of Lil Nas X
Wendy Peters / Nipissing University
Wendy Peters argues that the contemporary and decentralized context of music production, distribution, and social media promotion diversified and transformed pop music by enabling Lil Nas X—a Black and openly gay star—to rise.
PUSSY RAP AND ALL OF THAT: DISTILLING THE MODERN WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN HIP-HOP
Jabari Evans / University of South Carolina
Dr. Jabari Evans discusses misogynoir and Black women’s erotic and cultural capital in Hip-Hop culture through Issa Rae’s Rap Sh!t
Read more“Doom and Groom”: Rightwing Media and the Rise of Anti-Trans Legislation
Mia Fischer / University of Colorado Denver
Dr. Mia Fischer takes a closer look at the rightwing media’s rhetoric of fear-mongering regarding anti-trans legislation.
Read moreLiving at the Edge of digital Imaginaries
Germaine Halegoua / University of Michigan
Dr. Germaine Halegoua explores how life has been changed by digital imaginaries and infrastructures.
Read moreBad Attachments: Making Trouble with Sex and Email
Cait McKinney / Simon Fraser University
Dr. Cait McKinney explores e-mail as a window into the web’s early potential as a queer space for sexual expression.
Read moreTouching Feeling Hands: Gender, Race, and Digital Devices
Michele White / Tulane University
Dr. Michele White examines the metaphors and iconography of hands on digital devices along the axes of race, gender and accessibility.
Read moreA Porn Studies Scholar’s Plea to Journalists
Becky Holt / Concordia University
Becky Holt examines mainstream rhetoric surrounding online pornography and calls for a more nuanced understanding of the industry.
Read moreThey thought advertising would make the internet free
KEVIN DRISCOLL / UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Kevin Driscoll explores the internet that might-have-been through the history of Juno’s ad-supported email service.
Read moreBREAKING THE HABIT: CONTEMPORARY HORROR & TOXIC MASCULINITY
ANDREW J. OWENS, PHD / UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Horror scholar Andy Owens explores the genre’s complex relationship to gender, and delves into two recent films that are tackling toxic masculinity head-on.
Read moreThe Great Society, Data Privacy, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Jennifer holt / University of California, Santa Barbara
Jennifer Holt traces back concerns regarding privacy violations and digital civil liberties to the beginnings of computerized databases in the 1960s.
Read moreProject Dhee: Withstanding Heteropatriarchy and Queer-bashing in Bangladesh through Enclave Deshi Queer Activism
MOHAMMED MIZANUR RASHID / The University of Texas at Dallas
Mohammed Rashid explores methods of private queer activism through the material comic strip, Dhee, in challenging the dominant gender and sexual norms in Bangladesh.
Read moreOver*Flow: “I’m the Industry Baby”: The Political Economy of Lil Nas X
Wendy Peters / Nipissing University
Wendy Peters argues that the contemporary and decentralized context of music production, distribution, and social media promotion diversified and transformed pop music by enabling Lil Nas X—a Black and openly gay star—to rise.
Read moreWhat the Indie Sleaze Revival Can Learn From Indie Camp
Morgan Bimm / St. Francis Xavier University
Morgan Bimm writes on the indie sleaze revival movement and the contemporary camp effect.
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