Hares Hyenas

Join us in celebrating the launch of Dr Zahra Stardust's new book on Thursday 5 December in conversation with Frankie Van Kan. Zahra Stardust examines the motivations and interventions of independent producers as they navigate criminal laws, risk-averse platforms, discriminatory algorithms, and rampant piracy. Producers engage in creative tactics to hustle for survival and visibility, from ethical certification to law reform, sometimes reproducing hierarchies of stigma themselves. By highlighting how stigma is bound up with intersecting oppressions, Stardust identifies these junctions as coalitional opportunities for changing social relationships to work, and capitalism.