Talks
“Femcelcore”: the aesthetics and politics of women's involuntary celibacy
A talk hosted by the Media and Gender research group, with Jacob Johanssen (St Mary’s)
May 31, 2023
‘Pink pill feminism: the rise of the femosphere’
Invited talk, JOMEC Feminist Media Studies Research Group, Cardiff University.
December 2022
‘Female Dating Strategy and the Political Perils of Pink-Pill Feminism’
Paper given at the ICA pre-conference Patriarchal Worlds, Feminist Networks, and the Conjuncture
American University of Paris
May 2022
‘The Guardian and neoliberal feminism’
Paper given with Mareile Pfannebecker on the panel ‘The Guardian and feminism’ at the conference Liberalism Inc: 200 Years of the Guardian, Goldsmiths University. With Hannah Hamad and Lynne Segal; chaired by Becky Gardiner.
April 23rd, 2021.
‘The media nag: The politics of women's transgressive speech in a time of backlash’
Invited talk at the CRFAC Research Seminar, Roehampton University
April 21st, 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. Organised by Dr. Jennifer O’Meara.
March 2021.
The event can be watched here.
BSA Emotions Study Group webinar: Anger: the Conflicted History of an Emotion
An event on the new book by Barbara H. Rosenwein, with a talk by the author, and Jilly Kay as respondent.
December 2020
Book launch: Gender, Media & Voice: Communicative Injustice & Public Speech
A discussion about feminism, voice and justice in contemporary culture with author Jilly Boyce Kay and respondents Jo Littler, Catherine Rottenberg, and Helen Wood
October 16th, 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, September 2020
Women's College, University of Calcutta
‘Gender and communicative injustice’
Keynote talk at the ‘New Directions in Media and Sociology Research’ conference
September 2020
University of Leicester
‘Rage within the machine: #MeToo and the possibilities of mediated anger’
Invited talk at ‘Digital Diversity in the Midst of Crisis’, Roehampton University, August 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’
Invited talk at the Winter School: Feminism Today: Challenges, Arguments, and Issues
Center for Gender and Diversity Research at Universität Tübingen, Germany.
February 2020
‘Feminism and the politics of gender in contemporary media culture’
Invited talk at the ‘Still I Rise’ Study Sessions
Nottingham Contemporary art gallery
October 2018