Agreeing with MacDonald that social media is a site of feminist resistance, Casey praises her book as a research inspiration.
Máiréad Casey
Máiréad Casey is a Lecturer in Film & Television Studies with the Huston School of Film and Digital Media. She is also a post-doctoral researcher and project manager for the H2021 MSCA-funded Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF) doctoral network. Her research interests include screen representations of sexual violence, representations of feminist activism and networked misogyny, as well as supernatural horror. She is an organising member of the Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies, who moderates its monthly online film club. She also serves as a committee member for the Irish Screen Studies Seminar series and as Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming Irish Screen Studies Journal. Her book, Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema, was published by the University of Wales Press in February 2026.
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