In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Sebastian Svegaard speaks with Dr Catherine Knight Steele. Catherine is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland - College Park. Her research focuses on race, gender, and media, with a specific emphasis on Black culture and discourse. She examines representations of marginalized communities in the media and how groups resist oppression and practice joy using online technology to create spaces of community. 

Sebastian chats with Catherine about the utility of "joy", and its relation with automation, technology, and digital feminism.

Catherine's most recent book, Digital Black Feminism, can be found at this link.