In this episode, host Sarah Banet-Weiser talks with guests Francesca Sobande and Jilly Kay about their recent research, including how Black women in Britain are creating their own digital spaces. They discuss the history of how women’s voices have been silenced in public spaces, from the ducking stool to the NDA, and the nuances of when silence becomes an active form of presence. They also discuss femvertising and the role of capitalism in feminist media — focusing throughout on the importance of parsing the contradictions of feminist scholarship.

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Featuring

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Francesca Sobande

Jilly Kay

Sponsors

Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication

More from the host & speakers: 

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Distinguished Professor; Professor | Annenberg School for Communication; Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism 

University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern California

Twitter - @sbanetweiser

Francesca Sobande 

Lecturer | School of Journalism, Media, and Culture

Cardiff University

Twitter - @chess_ess @CardiffJomec @cardiffuni

Jilly Kay

Lecturer | Department of Media and Communication

University of Leicester

Twitter - @jillybkay @deptmedialeic

Works referenced in episode: 

Kay, J. B. (2020). Gender, media and voice: Communicative injustice and public speech. Springer Nature.

Sobande, F., & Sobande, F. (2020). Why the Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain? (pp. 1-27). Springer International Publishing.

Emejulu, A., & Sobande, F. (2019). To exist is to resist: Black feminism in Europe. Pluto Press.

Sobande, F. (2022). Black oot here: black lives in Scotland. Bloomsbury Publishing.