Posted on behalf of Jessalynn Keller. *Anti-Trump Resistance Across Feminized Media Cultures* Since the November 2016 election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, there has been a wide range of resistances to his presidency and policies mobilized and expressed through media cultures. Much of this resistance has occurred within what Elana Levine (2015) calls “feminized popular culture,” including commercial magazines, social media platforms like Instagram, and celebrity culture. Indeed, this resistance complicates problematic assumptions about feminine cultural spaces as “lightweight, frivolous, and excessively emotional” (Levine 2015) and raises important questions about how feminized media cultures are working as politicized spaces resisting the Trump administration. This panel aims to address some of these questions, including: How is mediated resistance represented across feminized media culture? In what ways are intersectional femininities being engaged as resistance to Trump’s hegemonic hyper-masculinity? What are the political-economic implications for the production of resistant, feminized media with a commercial culture? How is the “excessively emotional” being mobilized for political critique? And, how does this resistance both extend and complicate historical traditions of girls’ and women’s mediated activism? I am seeking papers to be a part of a pre-constituted panel that examines the ways in which anti-Trump resistance has been mobilized, circulated, and rewritten across feminized media cultures. Papers that explore intersectional feminized media cultures and those that historicize anti-Trump resistance are particularly encouraged. Paper topics may include: • Social media activism, including Facebook groups such as Pantsuit Nation • The mediated affects of anti-Trump sentiments, including trauma, anger and hope • Girls’ mediated critiques of Trump • Feminized labour of resistance • Mediation of protest, including the Women’s March on Washington • The commodification of anti-Trump protest • Queering anti-Trump media The panel already consists of two papers, one exploring the anti-Trump politics of Teen Vogue and the other interrogating pussyhats craft communities as resistance. Thus, I am seeking two additional papers (on different topics) to round out the panel. Abstracts between 400-500 words, as well as 4-5 references and a short bio should be sent to Jessalynn Keller (Jessalynn.keller@ucalgary.ca) by July 15, 2017. Successful submissions will be notified by July 24, 2017 with a final submission by August 21, 2017. Please send any questions to jessalynn.keller@ucalgary.ca -- Ryan Burns, PhD Dept of Geography University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io