May 21, 2025

Online

MeCCSA Race, Ethnicity, and Postcolonial Network and MeCCSA Women’s Network present:

Wednesday 21st May 2025

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’

All times BST

You can register for the event here: https://buytickets.at/universityofsurrey1/1651077