From social media hashtags to virtual grad school, in this episode Keely O’Brien is joined by Fikiswa Tsabedze, who recently completed a Masters in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies at York with a focus on hegemonic femininity created through social media discourses in Eswatini. Her research considers what type of women are valued and the kind of ‘womanhood’ and ‘femininity’ that’s accepted, and what that means for women who fall short.

Find Fikiswa’s work with Weave News here: https://www.weavenews.org/series/conflicting-emotions

Read Fikiswa’s personal blog here: https://www.fikiswat.com/

Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.

For a written transcript of this episode, please go to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Fd1OU-gN6Jb530wj2wMSP1n8Ko3AEMqv?usp=sharing

Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.

Resources

York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/

Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/