Andi Schwartz (she/her) is a feminist scholar working at the intersection of critical femininity studies and feminist media studies. She is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies program at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia (Mi'kma'ki) and the Treasurer of the Sexuality Studies Association. She is a Research Associate with the Centre for Feminist Research at York University, and a founding member of its Critical Femininities Research Cluster. Andi is currently co-editing a special issue of Feral Feminisms with Dr. Shayda Kafai titled “Excess: The Intersection of Critical Femininities, Mad Studies, and Critical Disability Studies.”

Andi has a PhD and MA in Gender, Feminist, and Women's Studies from York University and a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University. 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 research interests include: femme identities, cultures, and histories; digital and popular cultures;  affect and “softness”; post/feminism; and how femme theory intersects and engages with other fields of study, such as critical disability studies, Indigenous studies, and Black feminist epistemology. She considers collaboration central to her creative work and scholarship.

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 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.