Jilly Boyce Kay

Good mentoring can break down class barriers – and I should know An open approach to knowledge and a kind, enabling manner help students go their own way but never feel alone, says Andrew Chadwick

My PhD supervisor, Professor Rodney Barker, who had a long and distinguished career at LSE, died recently. Last week I wrote an article for @timeshighered.bsky.social reflecting on the transformational influence of his mentoring style. It's out today www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/good...

01.10.2025 11:06 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

24.09.2025 09:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors - Sarah Banet-Weiser, Jilly Boyce Kay, 2025 In recent years, the ‘mirror’ has emerged as a key metaphor for theorizing contemporary digital culture, with its disorienting communicative architectures and b...

This is very good, on how vampires are subverting then sucking the life out of liberalism. By Sarah Banet-Weiser and @jillybkay.bsky.social:
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15.09.2025 12:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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Your answers will support the work of ReCARE-TV, a major academic project investigating reality TV and duties of care tinyurl.com/225meets

02.07.2025 12:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

At the Reactionary Politics, Women and Feminist Critique symposium organised by @jillybkay.bsky.social and sponsored by @ejcs-journal.bsky.social @angelamcrobbie.bsky.social is delivering the keynote, 'Top Girls No More..?'

22.05.2025 14:58 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Poster for an academic event on reactionary politics, feminist critique, and women at Loughborough University.

Screenshot of PPT. Title slide for paper called “Heteropessimism on TikTok: #boysober and the reactionary feminised digital media ecology”

Decorative. Series of headlines about “boy sober”

Screenshot of PPT detailing the methods and sample of the study.

Loughborough bound for a symposium on reactionary politics, women, and feminist critique. Looking forward to lots of fascinating papers and to presenting with @jillybkay.bsky.social on TikTok’s “boysober” trend.

20.05.2025 13:52 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Really looking forward to this talk by Dr. @jillybkay.bsky.social on 27th February in UCD

15.02.2025 16:11 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Vampire anti-feminism is officially the best way to describe these reactionary feminist groups!

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New short article with Sarah Banet-Weiser, about the digital mirror-world, and how it is populated by strange doppelgangers of feminism

'Through the looking glass: feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors'

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04.02.2025 15:12 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 2

In "Through the looking glass", Sarah Banet-Weiser and @jillybkay.bsky.social argue that grasping the dynamics of ‘mirroring’ in digital culture is crucial for analyzing contemporary #gender politics as it plays out in an increasingly reactionary terrain.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/1367... #feminism

28.01.2025 13:54 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Welcome to the femosphere, the latest dark, toxic corner of the internet… for women ‘Femcel’ influencers urge their followers to give up on gender equality and use men for financial gain – in the name of feminism

In this @rachaelhealy.bsky.social piece, @jillybkay.bsky.social: “Liberal feminism has been rejected for good reason .. it makes sense you’d want to find an alternative. But just because something is the enemy of liberal feminism does not mean it’s good for women” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

30.12.2024 16:52 — 👍 50    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 7

CRCC to host the symposium ‘Reactionary politics, women, and popular culture’ - Centre for Research in Communication and Culture Photo by Marisa Howenstine

Call for Papers: ‘Reactionary politics, women, and popular culture’, a one-day symposium at Loughborough University

12.12.2024 09:20 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

In the #research article "From femcels to ‘femcelcore'’", @jacobjohanssen.bsky.social and @jillybkay.bsky.social introduce a new theoretical lens for analysing the politics of gender, sexuality and popular media.

Read the full article here: https://buff.ly/4fATbzE

27.11.2024 12:06 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

1/7 My latest book is out. Drop me a message if you'd like a 20% off voucher (£24 bargain for x mas 😉)
It is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between assessment and race in HE, and what we can do make HE assessment more inclusive and equitable.

19.11.2024 17:38 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

TV friends, please follow @recaretv.bsky.social for updates on our research

25.11.2024 14:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

In "Whose menopause revolution?", Deborah Jermyn unpacks the media narrative that followed in the uses of the term ‘the Davina effect' – named after two documentaries about menopause by enduringly popular British TV presenter Davina McCall.

https://buff.ly/3Ojfz4w

25.11.2024 12:06 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The European Journal of Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary platform for charting new questions and new research – and we are very much looking forward to sharing and discussing #culturalstudies with you here ✨

20.11.2024 15:08 — 👍 27    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

A recent article of mine: 'The reactionary turn in popular feminism'

Open access in @femmediastudies.bsky.social

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21.11.2024 11:49 — 👍 31    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

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Great to read these generous and thoughtful repsonses by Kathi Weeks, @francescasobande.bsky.social, Janet Newman, Alison Hearn and Kate Soper to 'Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal + the Political' in Feminist Theory - #OpenAccess here:

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29.10.2024 17:48 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Helen, the canal writing sounds really exciting and I can't wait to read this! Am sure you know about it already, but Jodie Matthews' work on canals is really great x

14.11.2024 09:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📣New article with Jilly Boyce Kay
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

09.11.2024 23:11 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0