What happens when queer activism runs into the capitalist economy? When the market responds to issues of social, political, and environmental justice? I explore how the growing reconfiguration of political and social order through neoliberal market logic is changing what it means, and what it looks like, to resist.

Examining how different types of media facilitate social change, I trace the role of collective singing in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s to hashtag campaigns like #BlackLivesMatter on social media platforms in the 21st century.

Exploring the history of exclusionary mythologies in the concept of the "wilderness" and how these imaginaries are perpetuated through media, language, and representation.

Tracing the history of feminism as a commodity — from an idea to an identity to a product — I look at contemporary marketing campaigns to understand the relationship of popular culture, feminism, and social change.

Examining how Rebecca Hall’s 2021 film “Passing” disrupts the stability of traditional concepts of identity through a kind of “racial transgenderism” and opens up space for a different type of gaze in order to call into question the construction of race and identity.

Exploring the paradox of communication – “at once a bridge and chasm” (Peters, 1999) — as we contend with an increasingly mediated world, and the risks of our reliance on social media platforms incentivized by profit to be a primary communication bridge to the organizing forces in our lives.