Girls just wanna have serotonin - Sad girls and profitable vulnerability in popular discourses of young women's mental health

Description

Fredrika Thelandersson examines the changing conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. In her seminar talk she will discuss how an increasingly intimate media environment has made way for a profitable vulnerability, that takes the shape of marketable and brand-friendly mental illness awareness that strengthens the authenticity of those who embrace it. But at the same time sad girl cultures are proliferating on social media platforms, creating radically honest spaces where those who suffer get support, and more capacious ways of feeling bad are formed.

Period	2023 Oct 3
Held at	Linköping University, Sweden