Podcasts

I created and produced the podcast Still Brazen: Twenty Years of Queering Femininity and I have been an invited guest on several podcasts to speak about my work, pop culture, and what I can’t stop thinking aboutβ€”femmes, memes, friendship, the astrology of the royal family. Check out some of my favourite episodes below!

Still Brazen is a podcast celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity (2002). Produced by Andi Schwartz and featuring Trish Salah, Kathryn Payne, Anurima Banerji, Zoe Whittall, ChloΓ« Brushwood Rose, Anna Camilleri, and more, season one is streaming now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

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  • Sexuality Studies Spotlight

    Remember Tumblr? Acafemmeic Research with Andi Schwartz and Keely O’Brien

    Host Keely O’Brien is joined by York’s Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) coordinator Dr. Andi Schwartz. They discuss Andi’s research interests in femme subjectivities, critical femininities, and the rapidly changing world of online subcultures from Tumblr to Instagram and beyond.

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  • Jo's Boys: A Little Women Podcast

    Chapter 8: Jo Meets Apollyon with Andi Schwartz

    This week, we're joined by special guest Andi Schwartz. We dive into the eighth chapter of Little Women, "Jo Meets Apollyon," where Amy lights Jo's manuscript on fire then pays for her misdeed by falling through the ice of the local river-slash-pond situation. Fittingly, Andi and I talk a lot about Jenny Fran Davis's essay "High Femme Camp Antics.”

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  • The Bisexual Agenda

    The Healing Power of Femme Friendships

    A love letter to Scorpio/Sagittarius femme4femme friendships and our favourite extinct social media platform, Tumblr. This episode also manages to include an astrology deep dive of the royal family AND Sex and the City.

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Interviews for Print

Interviews for Print

Xtra Magazine - Connecting Generations of Femmes

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San Francisco Chronicle - The Internet Gets Heated Over β€˜Soft Girl’ Culture

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Invited Talks

I’ve been invited to speak and give workshops about my work on memes, femmeship, softness, and digital methods at Tarragon Theatre, York University, Monash University, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Toronto.

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Conference Presentations

  • Paper presented at the Critical Studies in Television Conference, Virtual, July 6-17, 2026.

  • Paper presented at The ArQuives’ β€œFrom Marginalization to Visibility: 2SLGBTQ+ Archives and Public Memoryβ€œ conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, May 15-17, 2026.

    Co-author: ChloΓ« Brushwood Rose

  • Paper presented at the β€œRevolution and Resurgence: Celebrating Feminist Publishing” conference, Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, November 2025.

    Co-author: ChloΓ« Brushwood Rose

  • Paper presented at SSHRC Congress at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Sexuality Studies Association, George Brown College, Toronto, June 2025.

  • Paper presented at the β€œMoving Trans History Forward” conference, University of Victoria, March 2025.

    Co-authors: Laura Brightwell and ChloΓ« Brushwood Rose.

  • Paper presented at the β€œPunk Scholars Network Conference.” Punk Rock Museum, Las Vegas, March 2025.

    Co-authors: Jenna Danchuk and ChloΓ« Brushwood Rose

  • Paper presented at Generation: The Fourth Annual Critical Femininities Conference, York University, Virtual. August 16, 2024.

  • Paper presented at Console-ing Passions, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, June 21, 2024.

  • Paper presented at the National Queer and Trans+ Community History Conference, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta. May 4, 2024.

  • Paper presented at the International Outlander Conference. University of Glasgow. July 21, 2023.

  • Paper presented at Console-ing Passions (with Morgan Bimm). University of Calgary, June 2023.

  • Roundtable held at SSHRC Congress at the Annual Meeting of the Sexuality Studies Association (SSA). With Jade Da Costa, Laura Brightwell, Hannah Maitland, Jessie Taieun Yoon & Lindsay Cavanaugh. York University. May 30, 2023.

  • Workshop conducted at the β€œNot a Checkbox: Engaging in a Culture of Equitable Teaching (Decolonization, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in Teaching & Learning Community of Practice 2023 Hybrid Conference).” York University, May 2023.

  • Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). Minneapolis.

  • Paper presented at the Feminist Digital Methods conference. York University (Via Zoom). August 12, 2022.

  • Paper presented at Punk Scholars Network: Global Punk (with Morgan Bimm)

  • Experimental session presented at Digital Intimacies: Connection in Crisis (with Morgan Bimm and Sarah Redikopp). University of Technology Sydney, Sydney (via Zoom). December 7-9, 2020.

  • Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Dublin (via Zoom), October, 2020.

  • Paper presented at Futures of Feminist and Queer Solidarities: International Online Conference. University of Gothenburg, Sweden (via Zoom), October 2, 2020.

  • Roundtable (with Alexia Arani and B.B. Buchanan) at the Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). San Francisco, 2019.

  • Paper presented at Camp/camp: The Collision of Style and Biopolitics, Hosted by The Department of Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism. Western University (via Zoom), October 2, 2020.

  • Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). San Francisco, 2019.

  • Paper presented at SSHRC Congress at the Annual Meeting of the Sexuality Studies Association (SSA). University of British Columbia, 2019.

  • Paper presented at Intersections | Cross-Sections. York University, March 9, 2019.

  • Paper presented at (De)Composing Death: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Hosted by The Dalhousie Association of Graduate Students in English. Dalhousie University, August 10, 2018.

  • Paper presented at The Between: Couple Forms, Performing Together (with Morgan Bimm), Hosted by the Department of Performance Studies at NYU, in association with Women & Performance. New York University, April 13, 2018.

  • Paper presented at What IFF (Intersectional Feminist Futures)?: Annual Graduate Student Symposium, Feminist and Gender Studies Student Association at the University of Ottawa, March 10, 2018.

  • Paper presented at SSHRC Congress at the Annual Meeting of Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches FΓ©ministes (WGSRF). Ryerson University, 2017.

  • Paper presented at SSHRC Congress at the Annual Meeting of the Sexuality Studies Association (SSA). Ryerson University, 2017.

  • Paper presented at SSHRC Congress at the Annual Meeting of the Sexuality Studies Association (SSA). University of Calgary, 2016