Publications

Book
Unruly Souls: The Digital Activism of Muslim and Christian Feminists, Rutgers University Press: July 2022, Order.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“‘Smarties, you know what’s up!’: Curating a Community and Cultivating Pleasure as a Social Justice Influencer,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (March 2024).

“Bland Christianity: The Secular Marketing Strategies of Urban Church Plants,” Journal of Media and Religion (July 2022).

“‘The bad things are just too close right now’: Podcasts Cultivate Spaces to Sit with the Messiness of Grief,” Mortality (February 2022).

“Aesthetic Styles and the Occupation of Space in the ‘Places You’ll Pray’ Photo Series,” Journal of Media, Religion, and Digital Culture 10, no. 1 (August 2021).

“Hybrid Styles, Interstitial Spaces, and the Digital Advocacy of the Salafi Feminist,” Critical Studies in Media Communication (July 2020).

“Cultivating Empathy and Resonance for Muslim Lives through Affective Images of the Chapel Hill Victims,” Communication, Culture and Critique (May 2020).

“The Unruly, Loud and Intersectional Muslim Woman: Interrupting the Aesthetics Styles of Islamic Fashion Images on Instagram,” International Journal of Communication, 14 (February 2020).

“Pushing Boundaries and Blurring Categories in Digital Media and Religion Research,” Sociology Compass. Invited submission. (January 2020).

“Cultural Expressions and Criticisms in the Mipsterz Fashion Video,” Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques 49, no. 1 (2018).

“Beyond Fashion Tips and Hijab Tutorials: The Aesthetic Style of Islamic Lifestyle Videos,” Film Criticism 40, no. 2 (June 2016).

“Performing Piety and Perfection: The Affective Labor of Hijabi Fashion Videos,” Cyber Orient 10, no. 1 (2016).

Book Chapters

“Selling to ‘Smarties’: The Marketing Strategies of a Social Justice Influencer,” Selling the Sacred: Religion and Marketing from Crossfit to QAnon, edited by Mara Einstein and Sarah McFarland Taylor, 2024.

“Queer Muslim Identity in the Third Space of Tumblr,” The Third Spaces of Digital Religion, edited by Nabil Echchaibi and Stewart M. Hoover. Routledge, 2023.

“Rectifying Gender Violence within Religious Communities through Hashtag Activism.” In Gender Violence, Social Media, and Online Environments: When the Virtual Becomes Real, edited by Lisa M. Cuklanz. Routledge, 2023.

“MuslimGirlWoke: A Muslim Lifestyle Website Challenges Intersectional Oppression.” In Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age, edited by Robert Rozehnal. Bloomsbury, 2022.

“More than a Mask, Burkini and Tights: Fighting Misrepresentations through Ms. Marvel’s Costume.” In Ms. Marvel’s America: No Normal, edited by Jessica Baldanzi and Hussein Rashid. University Press of Mississippi, 2020.

Co-authored with Nabil Echchaibi, “Mipsterz: Hip, American, and Muslim.” In Religion and Pop Culture in America, 3rd Edition, edited by Jeffrey Mahan and Bruce Forbes. University of California Press, 2017.

“Islamic Fashion Images on Instagram and The Visuality of Muslim Women.” In Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture, edited by Rebecca Ann Lind. Routledge, 2017.