Women’s expertise is constantly undermined and trivialized. For example, holding pop music in low regard (thinking it can only ever be frivolous, ideologically overdetermined, or sold-out) is one way of trivializing a field in which women, especially black women, have made hugely significant artistic, cultural, and economic impacts. Women academics, writers, and journalists also … Continue reading Wait, do people think I’m a dude? On digital microcelebrity and gender