Sujatha Subramanian, PhD

2022

Subramanian, S. & Sharma, R. Towards an Anti-Caste and Feminist Vision of Transformative Justice: Analyzing Social Media Activism Against Sexual Violence. Women’s Studies in Communication 45 (4), 465-481.

Gajjala R., Ford, S., Kumar, V., Subramanian, S. Online (Indian/South Asian) Digital Protest Publics negotiating #POC #BIPOC and #anticaste. In S., MacDonald, M., MacArthur, M., Radzikowska & B., Wiens (Eds.) Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices (pp.145-161). Lexington Press. 

2019

Subramanian, S. “(Dis)Respectable Selfies: Honour, Surveillance and the Undisciplined Girl” In Aneja, A. (Ed.) Women’s and Gender Studies in India: Crossings (pp. 247-257). Routledge.

2017

Subramanian, S. Of Real Identities: Expressions of Femininities and Sexualities in Online Spaces. SubVersions, 3 (2), 1-21.

2015

Subramanian, S. From the Streets to the Web: Looking at Feminist Activism on Social Media. Review of Women’s Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, 50 (17), 7178.

2021

Subramanian, S. Icons and Archive of the Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 37 (2), 127-135.

2020

Subramanian, S. Bahujan girls’ anti-caste activism on TikTok. Feminist Media Studies 21(1). 154-156. 

2019

Subramanian, S. Is Hindutva Masculinity on Social Media Producing A Culture of Violence Against Women and Muslims? Economic and Political Weekly Engage, 54 (15). 

2018

Subramanian, S. Women from Outside: Review of Selfing the City: Single Women Migrants and Their Lives in Kolkata. Economic and Political Weekly, 53 (19), 25-28.

2022

Subramanian, S. Critical Thought in the Time of Digital Technology: The Case of Feminist and Anticaste Activism on Social Media. World Humanities Report. Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).

2023

Shchurko, T., Sosnovskaya, O., Mamedov, G., Subramanian, S., & Suchland, J. (2023, January 28). Geographies of Solidarity: Protests in Belarus through a Transnational Feminist Perspective. Feminist Translocalities.

2017

Subramanian, S. (2017, November 12). #MeToo: Challenging boundaries between online and offline. Daily News and Analysis.

Subramanian, S. (2017, May 29). Why are there so few women on the Internet in India? Hindustan Times.

Subramanian, S. (Host). (2017, April 14). Translating the Transnational (Episode Four) [Audio podcast episode]. In Human Rights in Transit: Humanities & Arts Discovery Theme Project. The Ohio State University.

2015

Subramanian, S. (2015, July 1). Being Fake, Being Online: Young Women’s Self Expressions through Multiple Profiles on Social Media. TARSHI (Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues).

Subramanian, S. (2015, June 15). Why I Decided to Study Feminist Activism on Social Media. GENDERIT.ORG.

2014

Subramanian, S. (2014, October 1). The Dirty Picture. TARSHI (Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues).

Subramanian, S. (2014, April 14). Doing Digital Humanities: Reflections on a project on Online Feminism in India. The Centre for Internet & Society. 

2012

Subramanian, S. (2012, May 8). For the sake of free speech. The Hindu.

2021

Lodhi, A. (2021). Constraints, Confrontations and Community: Women’s Unique and Evolving Social Media Experience. The Daily Q.

2019

Gajjala, R. (2019). Conversation with Ms. Sujatha Subramanian. Cyberdiva’s Podcast.

2024

Plenary Lecture on Researching Brahmanical Patriarchy: Recognizing Caste and Its Intersections with Gender. International Conference on Gendered Societies- Multidimensional Perspectives and Changing Patterns, East Calcutta Girls' College, Kolkata.

2023

Round table on Decolonizing Equity-Diversity-Inclusion Discourses and the Neoliberal University: Lessons from South Asia. Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin- Madison.

Caste and Carcerality: Brahmanical Patriarchy as the Foundation of Indian Justice System. The Prajnya Trust.

2022

Interrogating Intersectionality: Is there a Diasporic Feminist Perspective. London College of Communication.

#ViralPotentials: How South Asian Women Use TikTok. MIT Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Digital Activism in Practice. University of Waterloo, SSHRC-CRSH and the Games Institute.

Geographies of Solidarity: Protests in Belarus through a Transnational Feminist Perspective. The Center for Slavic and East European and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University.

2021

Carceral Feminism and Gender-Based Violence. One Future Collective - FemJustice Program.

2020

Girls in the Indian Juvenile Justice System. Webinar on Gender, Migration and Youth Justice in the Global South, The Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective. 

The Anti-CAA Protests from the Lens of Caste and Gender. University of Oxford.

2024

Gender and Decoloniality. Course: (De)coloniality - Concepts and Current Debates from an Interdisciplinary Perspective. University of Innsbruck.

2023

Caste and Carcerality in India’s Child Protection Systems. Course: Culture and Society. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

2021

Introduction to Transnational Feminism. Course: WS 2000 - Introduction to Women's Studies: Perspectives on Gender, Class and Ethnicity. Bowling Green State University.

2021

The Policing of Protest. "Abolition Is..." Teach In. The Ohio State University.

2018

Education and Transnational Development Discourses: Girls from the Global South. Girls of Color: Resistance & the Politics of Empowerment Symposium. The Ohio State University.

2023

When Global Governance Intersects with Caste: Studying the Punishment of Girls in India’s Juvenile Justice System. 4th International Conference of SAFI on Punishment, Paris.

Care or Control?: Therapeutic Interventions Around Multiply-Marginalized Girls in India’s Juvenile Justice System. XVII National Conference of Indian Association of Women’s Studies, Trivandrum.

Panel on Studying Up the State in South Asia: Methodological Reflections. American Association of Geographers, Online.

2022

Desire, Detention, and Disruptions: Girls’ Negotiation of Researcher-Participant Relations in Juvenile Detention. Spaces In-Between: Relational Methodologies of Gender, Race, Caste, and Age. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis.

2021

Protesting Children, Protecting Children: Looking at Children’s Protests at Shaheen Bagh. In the Wake of Shaheen Bagh: Historicizing Women’s Political Agency, Ethics of Care, and Protest for a Transnational Feminist Digital Archive. National Women’s Studies Association, Online.

Detention as Protection: Girls’ Experiences of Child Protection Laws in Delhi. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Online.

Conceptualizing Notions of Justice: An Intersectional Analysis of Social Media Responses to Popular Cases of Sexual Violence in India. International Communication Association, Online.

The Consenting Adult and Love Jihad. Seminar on Chronological Age. American Historical Association, Online.

2019

The Creation of an Anti-Caste Archive on Social Media. The Arts, Knowledge and Critique in the Digital Age in India. Digital Humanities Conference: Sahapedia and IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

2018

Of Respectable and Safe Selfies: Exploring Girls’ Negotiations with Desire, Risk and Violence. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans.

2017

Educated, Empowered, Essentialized?: Locating Girls within Development Discourses. National Women’s Studies Association, Maryland.

Negotiating Discomfort: Researching Girls within the Adult Feminist Academia. Feminist Geography 2017: Insides & Outsides of Feminism. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

2015

Our Selfies, Our Selves: Young Women’s Reflections on their Engagement with Selfies. Materiality of Cultures: Methods and Practices. The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.

2014

Exploring the Self(ie): Understanding Subjectivity of Young Girls through Practices of Self- Representation in Social Media. Mediatised India 2.0, Frames of Reference, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Mumbai.

Honour and Shame: Reconceptualising the State Response to Rape from a Caste Patriarchy Perspective Pluralities: Caste, Inclusion and Intersectionalities, Indian Association for Women’s Studies. Guwahati.

Young Feminists and Social Media: Conceptualising Alternative Spaces of Activism. Young Women: Resisting Violence and Exploring Legacies, Indian Association for Women’s Studies. Guwahati.

2013

The Dirty Picture: Interrogating Sexuality and Subversion in a Postfeminist Bollywood. Seeing through the Screen, Frames of Reference, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Mumbai.

A Site of Her Own: Gendered Violence in Cyberspace. National Conference on “Media Ethics and Social Responsibility”, St Joseph’s College. Bangalore.

2012

Post-Feminist Embodiment: Exploring Violence in Cyberspace. Violence/Erasure/Memory, Frames of Reference, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Mumbai.

2023

Discussant, Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Ashwini Tambe. Girl, (Un)Interrupted: Identity, Experience, Agency, and Representation. University of Delhi, Delhi.

2021

Discussant, Book Launch of Children and NGOs in India: Development as Storytelling and Performance. Critical Childhood and Youth Studies Collective, Online.

2012

Panel: Literature and Reflections on Violence. Frames of Reference, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

2011

Panel: Rethinking Sexualities: Mythical and Fictional Narratives. Frames of Reference, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

2023

Presenter, Workshop on Rethinking Girl Power. Girl, (Un)Interrupted: Identity, Experience, Agency, and Representation. University of Delhi, Delhi.

2019

Presenter, Feminist and Queer Urban Geographies. Critical Geography South Asia (CGSA) Workshop. Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Mohali.

2017

11^th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop. Duke University, Durham.