Join us for the first installment of our Emerging Scholars Lecture Series with Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin on Monday, February 3 from noon–2 p.m. Lunch will be provided so please RSVP by Thursday, January 30 to secure your meal.

Through the examples of two forms of Popular Black feminism, Black feminist journalism and Black feminist television shows, this talk will illustrate how media producers’ attempt to navigate the tension between dominant media industry economic paradigms and political values produce different manifestations of what Peterson-Salahuddin terms fugitive media: media with embedded meanings that refuse and attempt to escape the representational norms and grounds set out for them by neoliberal media markets. Peterson-Salahuddin argues the concept of fugitive media offers communications studies scholars a lens through which to understand the nuanced relationship that shapes how ideas and information stemming from liberatory politics enter into spheres of popular culture and how this entreé necessarily shapes how we do and must engage with these concepts.