Sweet offers a detailed feminist commentary on Derfoufi’s book that aims at unveiling persistent racism in video gaming cultures.
Anne Sweet
Anne Sweet is a lecturer in American Civilisation, TV and Cinema Studies in Paris, France. She is a permanent faculty member at the L’Institut de Gestion Sociale (Groupe IGS), and she also lectures at L’Institut Catholique de Paris et L’École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. She holds a Master of Arts from Columbia University and a PhD from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her doctoral thesis examined the phenomenon of girl power in American TV series. Anne’s her current research focuses on the fourth wave of feminism and new media.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey