public speaking



I actively discuss my ongoing research through panel events, academic conferences, and various public media events.


I am currently most interested in collaborating on topics of: digital intimacy, location-based dating applications, and feminist media theories.


UPCOMING events



Co-host with Dr. Idil Galip


Digital culture podcast where we add academic depth to viral trends.

Panel events


Love and Media


University of Amsterdam Off-Screen Panel Discussion Series [September 2023]

Co-presenter with Prof. dr. Mark Deuze, Prof. dr. Misha Kavka, Dr. Alvaro Lopez Navarro, Faye Mercier



A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Love and Intimacy at the Cultural Nexus of Online and Offline Worlds


Global Digital Cultures Research Seminar Series [July 2022]

Co-presenter with Prof. dr. Misha Kavka




academic conferences

Reisling and Resistance:

TikTok’s “Hinge Dinner Parties”as Sites of Feminist and Queer Resistance


Resistance and Resilience: Gender and Sexuality in Digital Culture, University of Exeter [May 2024]


Love Bytes:

Navigating Entanglements of Sex and Romantic Love through FLINT* Individuals’ Use of the Hinge Dating Application


Sex in Contemporary Media: An Interdisciplinary Conference [October 2023]


Un-Hingeing Hook-Up Culture:

An Investigation into Young Womxn’s Sexual Autonomy through the Hinge Dating Application


ESA RN23 Sexuality Mid-Term Conference – Making a Difference: The Hope and Promise of Sexuality Studies [September 2023]


Un-Hinged:

Combining Affect and Emotion within ‘Feminist Love Studies’ to Analyze Romantic Love and Sexuality Autonomy through the Hinge Dating App


ECREA TWG Affect, Emotion & Media – Interdisciplinary Approaches to Affect and Emotion Research in Media and Communication Studies [August 2023]


Identity Bias and Social Media


Guest Lecture – Pre-University Honour Programme: Politics & Identity with Luuc Brans [July 2022]


Cumming Together, Far Apart: The Platformization of Grassroots Orgies During Covid-19 and Its Impact on the Relationship Between Consent and Access


Presenter - Leisure Studies Association – In Pursuit of Leisure: Inequality, Storytelling, and the Meanings of Place [July 2022]


Beating to the Rhythm of Commodification: Anti-Capitalist Community Building through Digital Raves During Covid-19


Presenter - Global Digital Cultures – Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production [June 2022]


It’s All the Rave!: The Twitchification of Raves and Its Implication for the Platformization of Musicking Subcultures


Presenter - University College Cork - Internet Musicking: Popular Music and Online Cultures [May 2022]


Activism, Feminism, and Social Media


Guest Lecture – University of Toronto Book and Media Studies [May 2018]