Carmen is a SheSource expert with extensive media training and experience who pops up regularly, in print and on-the-air, to sound off in the media about feminist subjects and digital movements.
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Interviews, Features and Profiles
In Print
If one were to take cues from pop culture alone, the state of young women today might seem rather grim…But the disproportionate amount of ink and pixels spilled on famous and — let’s face it — confused girls like [Miley] Cyrus distracts from the more interesting work of so-called ordinary girls — like Carmen Rios.
New York Times: Girls Tweeting (Not Twerking) Their Way to Power
- Hype Zine Volume Three
- DIVA Magazine: Listen Up: Meet the Hosts of a New Podcast on a Mission to Put Women Front and Center in Politics
- BITCH Magazine: Electric Youth: Eight Activists Who Are Sparking Change Right Now + Glamour Issue Community Spotlight (above)
- Washington Post: In SlutWalk Debate, Support the Right to Be Seductive
- Echo Magazine: Not-So-Guilty Feminist Pleasures
Online
The biggest lesson I’ve learned from Carmen and her work is that you’re allowed to be fun-loving and outraged at the state of the world; you can wear pink and be taken seriously; you can be obsessed with pop culture and still be an intellectual—as a woman, you’re allowed to be complicated and multi-faceted and celebrated for who you are.
Hannah Hightman, introducing an interview with Carmen for Hypezine
- Honeybee: Issue 9 with Carmen Rios: Feminism and the Internet
- Ms. Magazine: The Femisphere: Young Feminists, Part 1 & Part 2
- Nylon: Meet The Podcast Showing Why The Resistance Shouldn’t Be Voiced by Straight White Men
- Generation Progress: Young Feminists to Older Feminists: If You Can’t Find Us, It’s Because We’re Online
- SheKnows: Ask a Raging Feminist
- GrokNation: Feminism 101: How Do Feminists Handle the Underbelly of the Internet?
- The Establishment: How Online Harassment Is Setting The Tone For The 2016 Election
On Camera (TV & Video)
- Good Morning America: Dr. Phil Under Fire for Sex Tweet
- CNN: Dr. Phil Gets Heat Over Sex Tweet
- CBS Early Show: College Date Rape Column Sparks Uproar
- The Advocate Live: Five Hillary Clinton Supporters on Why She’s the Candidate for Them
On the Airwaves (Podcasts & Radio)
- NPR LifeKit: Navigating the Coming Out Conversation
- KABC AM Radio’s The Solution: Gender Inequality in Medical Diagnoses
- KABC AM Radio’s Emerging Minds Show: Toxic Masculinity and Captain Marvel
- KFAI FM Radio: Feminist Voices
- CKNW Talk Radio’s The Simi Sara Show
- NPR’s WAMU’s Kojo Nmandi Show: Slutwalk DC
- Youth Radio: How To Use Social Media For Justice IRL
- Books Aren’t Dead Podcast: CARMEN RIOS IN CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS OF INTERSECTIONALLIES
- To L and Back Podcast: Episode 206: Lágrimas De Oro with Carmen Rios
- How to Resist Podcast: How to Resist the Patriarchy with Carmen Rios
- Feminist Crush Podcast: S2 Ep10: Carmen Rios
- Fucking While Feminist Podcast: Ep 31 with Carmen Rios
- TCU Magazine Podcast: KATHERINE SPILLAR AND CARMEN RIOS
- I’m Listening: A Frasier Fan Podcast
Other Press & Praise
Shout-Outs & Celebrations
- Longreads: The Good, The Bad and The Highly Personal: A Reading List About Haircuts
- Mashable: The best podcasts about feminism, equality, equity, and surviving
- BuzzFeed: Our Favorite LGBT Essays We Published This Year
- Curve Magazine: Queer Podcast Round-Up
- Logo.NewNowNext: We Have Officially Entered A Golden Age Of Queer Women In Podcasting
- Autostraddle: 9 Queer-Run Podcasts You Should Be Listening To Right Now
- Broad! Zine: First Friday Round-Up
- The Rumpus: BELL HOOKS’ FEMINISM IS MY FEMINISM
- The F Word: The Best Feminist Podcasts You Should Listen To
Quotes & Mentions
- NBC News: Out Women Seek to Give Voters Bigger Voice in Electoral College
- Education Week Blog: Training in Preventing Sexual Violence Urged for Coaches
- Feministing: Where Is Your Line on Comedy? Tucker Max and Rape Humor
- Move to End Violence: Three Passions and Three Essential Questions for the Movement
- Daily Dot: The important conversation about Sandra Bland’s death no one is having
- Bustle: 5 Forms Of Privilege You May Not Know You Have
- Romper: Abortion Will Never Stop, Even If It’s Banned, & Here’s What That Means
- Vox: The controversy over Bernie Sanders’s speech at the Women’s Convention, explained
- The Houstonian: The Gender Wage Gap, Explained
- The Body is Not an Apology: #EffYourDressCodes
- Huffington Post: Every Reason Your School’s Gendered Dress Code Is Probably a Sexist Mess
- The Guardian: Political activism is as strong as ever, but now it’s digital – and passionate
- Safe. Magazine: Pivotal Moments
- The Radical Idea: Body Policing in the Workplace
- Daily Life: All-female billboard top five bad for women?
- The Spartan Daily: My Boots Deserve as Much Respect as Your Loafers
- Jezebel: Lady Gaga has a Burqa Problem
- ThinkProgress: Dr. Phil Sparks Massive Outcry By Asking If It’s Okay to Have Sex With A Drunk Girl
- xoJane: Dr. Phil Asks if It’s Cool to Have Sex With Drunk Girls, Sh*tstorm Ensues
- Huffington Post: Dr. Phil Posts Sexual Assault Tweet, Outraging Twitter Audience
- Yahoo: ‘Dr. Phil Show’ Faces Backlash for Sex Tweet
- TIME: Dr. Phil’s Disappearing Rape Tweet
- Bustle: Dr. Phil’s Sexual Assault Tweet Is Everything That’s Wrong With Our Rape Culture
- C|Net: Dr. Phil to Twitter: Is it OK to have sex with drunk girl?
- Slate: Dr. Phil Asks Twitter Followers If It’s OK to Have Sex With a Drunk Girl
- Entertainment Weekly: Dr. Phil asks on Twitter if it’s OK to have sex with a drunk girl
- Caroline Miller’s Blog: A Tale of Two Women
Citations and References in Books
- Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists, by Lyn Mikel Brown
- Digital Civil War, by Peter Daou
- Girls Sexualities and the Media, edited by Kate Harper, Yasmina Katsulis, Vera Lopez and Georganne Scheiner Gillis
- Gender, Sex, and Politics: In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century, edited by Shira Tarrant
- Difficult Dialogues About Twenty-First Century Girls, edited by Donna Marie Johnson and Alice E. Ginsberg
- Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership, edited by Kirsti Cole and Holly Hassel
- Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions, edited by Christine Caldwell and Lucia Bennett Leighton
- Introduction to Human Relations Studies: Academic Foundations and Selected Social Justice Issues, by George Henderson and Wesley C. Long
Academic Citations
Papers and Publications
- First Monday Journal: A conversation: Queer digital media resources and research
- University of West Florida’s Feminist Spaces: Students, Teachers, Scholars, Storytellers: Exploring Embodiment Through Social Constructs
- Duke University’s Rubenstein Library Magazine: Truly a Blessed Company: Twenty-Five Years of Documenting Women’s Lives
- The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics: Dress Practices as Embodied Multimodal Rhetorics
- QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking: Dress Profesh: Genderqueer Fashion in Academia
- Girlhood Studies Journal: We’re Taking Back Sexy: Girl Bloggers SPARK a Movement and Create Enabling Conditions for Healthy Sexuality
- Policy & Internet Journal: New Media, New Civics?
- Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law: Racial Identity Performance and Employment Discrimination Law
- Harvard University Youth Participatory Politics Research Network: How Do We Get from Voice to Change?
- Thesis presented to Ryerson University and York University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Program of Communication and Culture: For Lack of a Better Word: Neo-Identities in Non-Cisgender, Non-Straight Communities on Tumblr
- Thesis Submitted to the Department of English in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master Degree at the University of Mohamed Boudiaf in M’sila: Rise of Digital Media in American Presidential Election Campaigns
- Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the School of Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh: “I Am . . . Not Yet”: Explicating Maxine Greene’s Notion of Naming and Being
Lectures and Syllabi
- Oxford Internet Institute Lecture: New Media, New Civics?
- University of Florida: LIT 3383 American Women in Comics and AML 3285.0989 A Cultural History of American Women in Comics
- California State University at Long Beach: SOCY 325 Sociology of Gender
- Siena Heights University: PHI 200 Philosophy of Race and Gender
- CritLib: The Weight and Worth of Professionalism
- MLA Commons Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Professionalization Curation
- Feminists Act! Intersectionality Syllabus
- GWS Texts Quizlet
- Mixed Race Studies
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