Note: This essay is formatted from an academic essay done while I was in grad school. I recently graduated grad school so my thoughts are pretty current. Narratives of accountability for sexual violence have existed for decades now in feminist advocacy. It should be no surprise then, that #metoo is…

In 1993 a user known only to us as “Alana” started an internet blog dedicated to tracking her inability to have sex with partners. She started this project, known as the “involuntary celibacy project” in hopes of connecting with other individuals who had encountered the same dry spell she had…

In mid-2017, Lauren Michele Jackson wrote the now infamous article “We need to talk about digital blackface.” In this article, Jackson defines digital blackface as “various types of minstrel performance that become available in cyberspace.” The primary object of these performances that Jackson hones in on were GIFs (Graphics Interchange…