This page is all about my writing away from bloggeronpole.com, from my books (fiction and non-fiction) and book chapters to my articles and academic papers.
Academic Papers and Reports
- Violence and the feminist potential of content moderation – chapter co-written with Dr Ysabel Gerrard for The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence
- Co-designing platform governance policies – Tackling malicious flagging and de-platforming with impacted social media users – read my report on the Centre for Digital Citizens’ website
- The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins – published in Social Media + Society
- An autoethnography of automated powerlessness: lacking platform affordances in Instagram and TikTok account deletions – published in Media, Culture & Society
- Sex in the shadows of celebrity. Paper co-written with Professor Susanna Paasonen for Porn Studies.
- The Shadowban Cycle: an autoethnography of pole dancing, nudity and censorship on Instagram. Published in Feminist Media Studies.
- A ‘Chosen’ Hope with a ‘Gingerbread’ Outcome: Democratization of (Media) Power in Buffy The Vampire Slayer as a Metaphor of Online Abuse on High-Profile Criminal Cases. Published in Slayage – The Journal of Whedon Studies.
- How Instagram’s algorithm is censoring women and vulnerable users but helping online abusers – Published in Feminist Media Studies and available for open access free readership through my university’s website.
- A corpo-civic space: A notion To address social media’s corporate/civic hybridity – First Monday (open access).
- Patterns of media coverage repeated in online abuse on high-profile criminal cases – Journalism (open access version here).
- Indicators of Online Hate Speech and Why it Should be Regulated, RIPE78.
- Book review: John Mair, Tor Clark, Neil Fowler, Raymond Snoddy and Richard Tait (eds) Anti-social media? The impact on journalism and society – in Journalism.
- How do social media facilitate the spreading of conspiracy theories and fake news? – in Innovative educational and media practices for an inclusive and participatory Europe – ACADEMIC PAPERS.
Books and book chapters
- Book chapter ‘When two fan subcultures meet: The interpenetration of RuPaul’s Drag Race and Twin Peaks in ‘Fire Werk with Me.”‘ – in ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race and Philosophy: Sissy That Thought (Popular Culture and Philosophy)‘

- Disconnected, University of Sydney’s 2017 anthology.
For more info, email me at bloggeronpole@gmail.com.