Paradoxes of visibility: negotiating race and gender in the UK political and media landscape

Please join us for Paradoxes of Visibility: Negotiating Race and Gender in the UK Political and Media Landscape', a half-day symposium exploring key issues of representation in contemporary media.

2pm: Welcome

2.15pm to 3.15pm Panel 1: Women of Colour in British Politics

• Sophia Kanaouti (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) ‘Bureaucratization of politics: identity without responsibility’
• Craig Ryder (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich) ‘Fringe platforms and the prevalence of digital macroaggressions against UK female leaders’
• Anna Sanders and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield (University of York) ‘The Glass Cliff in Contemporary British Politics: The non-traditional aspect of contemporary leadership contests and their gendered and intersectional consequences’

3.30pm to 4.15pm Panel 2: The Politics of Visibility

• Tina Frederikke Kristensen (University of Sunderland) ‘”#metoo was started by a black woman, @Tarana Burke!!! Give credit where it’s due! <3" (Marqueza, 2017): The discursive strategies used to increase visibility of people of colour in the #MeToo movement on Twitter’
• Hannah Yelin (Oxford Brookes University) ‘Trans and nonbinary youth navigating celebrity culture and the risks of visibility’