Ira Solomatina is a postdoctoral researcher at the ERC-funded SMALLPLATFORMS project at LMU. Ira’s PhD research at the School of Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam investigated representations of politics and the political in women’s fashion media drawing on perspectives from India, Russia and the USA. Ira’s research focuses on how media shapes and entrenches performances and understandings of gender, the political implications of affective patterns online, and misogyny online. Her articles have been published in Feminist Media Studies and the European Journal of Cultural Studies.