PAST SPEAKING EVENTS
Closing My Tabs on International Women's Day
YouTube
2023
International Women's Day (IWD) was born out of protest. It is 2023 and women are still protesting. IWD is often treated as a brand moment or positioned as a holiday to celebrate. All it does is make me cringe and remind me how much more we've got to go. Creative strategist and digital ethnographer, Melissa Eshaghbeigi presents cultural insights on Womanhood, Motherhood, and Girl Power.
It's 2039, you’re either stressed, depressed or cancelled
Dark Futures
2019
For Dark Futures, I dive into the existentially-challenged world of modern social media, looking into the future consequences of our present behaviors.
Dive In Festival
2021
How what we share is sovereign to us and not to be used as a tool for supporting bias and creating context for policy or penalty
Life isn’t lived anymore, it’s curated. Filtered and edited photos are the norm. Surgeons are being asked by their patients to “look like their selfie.”
In a world where we see each other less and less in person, what kind of impact might our time online have on identity, beauty, and confidence? What happens when your self doesn’t look like your selfie or when we all aim for a single algorithmic version of beauty? In a post-covid world, does that even matter anymore?