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

What happens when queer activism runs into the economy, and what are the navigations at play when the market responds to issues of social, political, and environmental justice? Conclusions of whether these representations “work” or “don’t work” as authentic acts of resistance fail to account for the growing reconfiguration of political and social order through neoliberal market logic.

How Rebecca Hall’s 2021 film “Passing” disrupts the stability of traditional concepts of identification 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 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.