Andi Schwartz (she/her) is a writer and feminist scholar working at the intersection of digital culture, feminist media studies, and critical femininity studies. She is interested in examining how a range of femininities—especially queer femininities—and specific cultures of femininity are constituted through the interplay of affective attachments and cultural production.

Andi’s research has been motivated by the absences and negative constructions of femininity within feminist and queer theory canons and by the promise of cultural production, user-generated media, and digital tools to capture the rich histories and (sub)cultural practices that can reveal and repair such interstices. Her academic work has been published in Sexualities, Punk and Post Punk, Feminist Media Studies, Social Media + Society, First Monday, Feral Feminisms, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology, and others.

Andi’s reporting, commentary, and essays on femme, feelings, friendship, feminism, and pop culture have been published in Xtra, Herizons, This Magazine, Shameless, Flare, Guts, and more. More of Andi’s writing can be found in her popular zine series, Soft Femme.

Andi is a Research Associate with the Centre for Feminist Research at York University, and a founding member of its Critical Femininities Research Cluster. She is currently the Treasurer of the Sexuality Studies Association and has been a faculty member in the Women’s and Gender Studies department at St. Francis Xavier University.

Andi is also a Scorpio sun, Libra moon, and Taurus rising. She is from Puslinch, Ontario and currently lives in Toronto with her dogs.

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The lands that are now known as Puslinch, Ontario were home to the Anishinaabe ancestors of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation before they were displaced by European settlers. Toronto is the colonial name for Tkaranto, the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.