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Emma Phillips (she/her)

@EmmaTremora

Researching visual cultures. Especially sexuality, class, sport. Assistant professor VisComm, UC. Photographer. Footballer. Sex-positive feminist 🏳️‍🌈
Ngunnawal, Canberra emmaphillipsphotography.com Joined January 2010
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Emma Phillips (she/her) @EmmaTremora
New work! Concerned people who say women's sexy selfies are unnatural or inauthentic really use these terms to police women's bodies & regulate women's behaviour. My own professional photography is highly constructed, but doesn't cop the same 'concern'🤔
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
www.tandfonline.com “Why Does She Have to Wear Make-up? She Looks Better Natural!” Staged Photos and Sexual Subjectiv... As women’s sexy selfie-making practices have burgeoned, so too have popular and feminist discourses of concern about them. One aspect of concern is that they are inauthentic or ‘unnatural’ presenta...
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Emma Phillips (she/her) @EmmaTremora
This is absolutely coming up in the research I'm doing with elite female footballers. Many pointed out that their clubs police the players' social media to protect them from hate - and this is a good thing - but players also wanted to hear respectful criticism. Great piece.
Marnie Vinall @marnievinall Aug 20, 2024
Constructive and valid criticism of AFLW - from people who regularly watch the game and understand its context - treats the elite nature of the comp with respect.

And players say it will help grow the game, as they head into their 9th season:
theage.com.au/sport/afl/fair…
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