Mia Fischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mia Fischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mia |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Valuing Diversity in the U.S. Intelligence Community
The U.S. Intelligence Community has sought to diversify its workforce for decades. Both proponents and opponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have advanced a functionalist, “business case” approach to the assessment of DEI initiatives that undermines DEI’s moral and ethical dimensions as well as its benefits under the right conditions. This article moves beyond the business case to present resources for intelligence stake…
As-Salaam-Alaikum, Bitches: The Biopolitics of Secularism, Neoliberal Multiculturalism, and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
Based on an analysis of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City ( RHOSLC ), we examine the role that secularism, as a biopolitical discourse, plays in rationalizing and entrenching racial capitalism through the cultural technology of reality television. We illuminate how secularism is interwoven in contemporary discourses of race, gender, sexuality, and class (e.g., post-race, postfeminism, sexual liberation, and spiritual neoliberalism), functioni…
Protecting women’s sports? Anti-trans youth sports bills and white supremacy
An unprecedented number of anti-transgender youth sports bills have been introduced in various state legislatures across the United States since 2020. These bills seek to bar trans youth from playing and competing in sports that align with their gender identity. Scrutinizing the rise in these bills and the fearmongering that accompanies them, this article untangles how the deployment of a white feminist rhetoric of "protecting women's sports" by …
Queering intelligence studies
This essay proposes ‘queering’ Intelligence Studies through a critical analysis of recent U.S. Intelligence Community diversity initiatives that aim to create workplaces more inclusive of LGBTQ members. In doing so, the essay advances queer theory as a resource that can improve intelligence organizing through critique of dominant approaches to diversity management. Shifting from a focus on identity categories to normativity can reveal entrenched …
Dossier: Field Goals—New Directions and Intersections
Multicultural integration in Germany: Race, religion, and the Mesut Özil controversy
This article scrutinizes shifts in media coverage of soccer player Mesut Özil during the 2018 World Cup and his subsequent resignation from the German national team. Our analysis highlights the dominance of a multicultural integration discourse that connotes a particularly German understanding of multicultural diversity as only valuable when it is subordinate to an individual’s integration into German culture. Multicultural integration implicitly…
Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State
Transgender Athletes and the Queer Art of Athletic Failure
Fallon Fox became the first openly transgender fighter in professional mixed-martial arts (MMA) in 2013. Her outing elicited fervent responses from the MMA community, reflecting the barriers many transgender women encounter in sex-segregated sports. Fox frequently faced pseudoscientific arguments alleging innate physical advantages over cisgender women, which are deeply entangled with sexist and racist assumptions about trans identity. For Fox, t…
A conversation: Queer digital media resources and research
The following is a panel discussion from QIS2 that in which five experts shared their research on queer media and technology. The panellists discuss a wide range of topics including trans people and surveillance online; trans identity and social media; online communities and feminist politics; the LGBT games archive; and digital vigilantism and sex trafficking. Uniting these diverse themes were a shared attention to the politics of queer visibili…
Transgender Visibility, Abolitionism, and Resistive Organizing in the Age of Trump: A Conversation with CeCe McDonald and Joshua Allen
Research Article| October 01 2018 Transgender Visibility, Abolitionism, and Resistive Organizing in the Age of Trump: A Conversation with CeCe McDonald and Joshua Allen Mia Fischer; Mia Fischer Mia Fischer is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado-Denver. Working at the intersections of critical media, queer, trans, sports, and surveillance studies, her work has appeared in Feminsit Media Studies, …
Trans responses to Adichie: Challenging cis privilege in popular feminism
In recent years, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of several award-winning, bestselling novels has gained recognition for centering a strong African feminist perspective in her work. In 2012, Adich
Contingent belonging: Chelsea Manning, transpatriotism, and iterations of empire
Engaging with the story of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, this article reveals how the incorporation of transgender subjects into assimilationist politics, idealized by narratives of a ‘US sexual exceptionalism’ ( Puar, 2007 ), is characterized by a contingent belonging. By analyzing responses from transgender veterans to Manning’s revelations, the article argues that present formations and modalities of US empire are legitimated through the rece…
Free_CeCe: The material convergence of social media activism
In 2011 CeCe McDonald, an African-American transgender woman, was charged with murder for killing her attacker during a racist and transphobic assault in Minneapolis. After McDonald’s arrest, local queer communities organized an astounding level of support. This article examines the CeCe Support Committee as a case study for effective grassroots organizing that is fueled by and increasingly reliant upon social media for advancing social justice. …
Commemorating 9/11 NFL-Style: Insights Into America’s Culture of Militarism
This article explores how the National Football League's (NFL's) commemoration ceremonies on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 present a unique instance of sports-media-military convergence through their meticulous implementation across multiple games, broadcasting channels, and geographic locations. Expanding on themes of healing, the valorization of troops, and the sanitizing of war, as well as territorial conquest, I argue that the NFL's 9/11 comme…
September 11 and America's Sporting Nation
Transgender Athletes and the Queer Art of Athletic Failure
Fallon Fox became the first openly transgender fighter in professional mixed-martial arts (MMA) in 2013. Her outing elicited fervent responses from the MMA community, reflecting the barriers many transgender women encounter in sex-segregated sports. Fox frequently faced pseudoscientific arguments alleging innate physical advantages over cisgender women, which are deeply entangled with sexist and racist assumptions about trans identity. For Fox, t…
Commemorating 9/11 NFL-Style: Insights Into America’s Culture of Militarism
This article explores how the National Football League's (NFL's) commemoration ceremonies on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 present a unique instance of sports-media-military convergence through their meticulous implementation across multiple games, broadcasting channels, and geographic locations. Expanding on themes of healing, the valorization of troops, and the sanitizing of war, as well as territorial conquest, I argue that the NFL's 9/11 comme…
Free_CeCe: The material convergence of social media activism
In 2011 CeCe McDonald, an African-American transgender woman, was charged with murder for killing her attacker during a racist and transphobic assault in Minneapolis. After McDonald’s arrest, local queer communities organized an astounding level of support. This article examines the CeCe Support Committee as a case study for effective grassroots organizing that is fueled by and increasingly reliant upon social media for advancing social justice. …
Trans responses to Adichie: Challenging cis privilege in popular feminism
In recent years, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of several award-winning, bestselling novels has gained recognition for centering a strong African feminist perspective in her work. In 2012, Adich
Protecting women’s sports? Anti-trans youth sports bills and white supremacy
An unprecedented number of anti-transgender youth sports bills have been introduced in various state legislatures across the United States since 2020. These bills seek to bar trans youth from playing and competing in sports that align with their gender identity. Scrutinizing the rise in these bills and the fearmongering that accompanies them, this article untangles how the deployment of a white feminist rhetoric of "protecting women's sports" by …
Transgender Visibility, Abolitionism, and Resistive Organizing in the Age of Trump: A Conversation with CeCe McDonald and Joshua Allen
Research Article| October 01 2018 Transgender Visibility, Abolitionism, and Resistive Organizing in the Age of Trump: A Conversation with CeCe McDonald and Joshua Allen Mia Fischer; Mia Fischer Mia Fischer is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado-Denver. Working at the intersections of critical media, queer, trans, sports, and surveillance studies, her work has appeared in Feminsit Media Studies, …
September 11 and America's Sporting Nation
Commemorating 9/11 NFL-Style: Insights Into America’s Culture of Militarism
This article explores how the National Football League's (NFL's) commemoration ceremonies on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 present a unique instance of sports-media-military convergence through their meticulous implementation across multiple games, broadcasting channels, and geographic locations. Expanding on themes of healing, the valorization of troops, and the sanitizing of war, as well as territorial conquest, I argue that the NFL's 9/11 comme…
Contingent belonging: Chelsea Manning, transpatriotism, and iterations of empire
Engaging with the story of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, this article reveals how the incorporation of transgender subjects into assimilationist politics, idealized by narratives of a ‘US sexual exceptionalism’ ( Puar, 2007 ), is characterized by a contingent belonging. By analyzing responses from transgender veterans to Manning’s revelations, the article argues that present formations and modalities of US empire are legitimated through the rece…
Free_CeCe: The material convergence of social media activism
In 2011 CeCe McDonald, an African-American transgender woman, was charged with murder for killing her attacker during a racist and transphobic assault in Minneapolis. After McDonald’s arrest, local queer communities organized an astounding level of support. This article examines the CeCe Support Committee as a case study for effective grassroots organizing that is fueled by and increasingly reliant upon social media for advancing social justice. …
Trans responses to Adichie: Challenging cis privilege in popular feminism
In recent years, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of several award-winning, bestselling novels has gained recognition for centering a strong African feminist perspective in her work. In 2012, Adich
A conversation: Queer digital media resources and research
The following is a panel discussion from QIS2 that in which five experts shared their research on queer media and technology. The panellists discuss a wide range of topics including trans people and surveillance online; trans identity and social media; online communities and feminist politics; the LGBT games archive; and digital vigilantism and sex trafficking. Uniting these diverse themes were a shared attention to the politics of queer visibili…
Transgender Visibility, Abolitionism, and Resistive Organizing in the Age of Trump: A Conversation with CeCe McDonald and Joshua Allen
Research Article| October 01 2018 Transgender Visibility, Abolitionism, and Resistive Organizing in the Age of Trump: A Conversation with CeCe McDonald and Joshua Allen Mia Fischer; Mia Fischer Mia Fischer is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado-Denver. Working at the intersections of critical media, queer, trans, sports, and surveillance studies, her work has appeared in Feminsit Media Studies, …
Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State
Transgender Athletes and the Queer Art of Athletic Failure
Fallon Fox became the first openly transgender fighter in professional mixed-martial arts (MMA) in 2013. Her outing elicited fervent responses from the MMA community, reflecting the barriers many transgender women encounter in sex-segregated sports. Fox frequently faced pseudoscientific arguments alleging innate physical advantages over cisgender women, which are deeply entangled with sexist and racist assumptions about trans identity. For Fox, t…
Multicultural integration in Germany: Race, religion, and the Mesut Özil controversy
This article scrutinizes shifts in media coverage of soccer player Mesut Özil during the 2018 World Cup and his subsequent resignation from the German national team. Our analysis highlights the dominance of a multicultural integration discourse that connotes a particularly German understanding of multicultural diversity as only valuable when it is subordinate to an individual’s integration into German culture. Multicultural integration implicitly…
Queering intelligence studies
This essay proposes ‘queering’ Intelligence Studies through a critical analysis of recent U.S. Intelligence Community diversity initiatives that aim to create workplaces more inclusive of LGBTQ members. In doing so, the essay advances queer theory as a resource that can improve intelligence organizing through critique of dominant approaches to diversity management. Shifting from a focus on identity categories to normativity can reveal entrenched …
Dossier: Field Goals—New Directions and Intersections
Protecting women’s sports? Anti-trans youth sports bills and white supremacy
An unprecedented number of anti-transgender youth sports bills have been introduced in various state legislatures across the United States since 2020. These bills seek to bar trans youth from playing and competing in sports that align with their gender identity. Scrutinizing the rise in these bills and the fearmongering that accompanies them, this article untangles how the deployment of a white feminist rhetoric of "protecting women's sports" by …
Valuing Diversity in the U.S. Intelligence Community
The U.S. Intelligence Community has sought to diversify its workforce for decades. Both proponents and opponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have advanced a functionalist, “business case” approach to the assessment of DEI initiatives that undermines DEI’s moral and ethical dimensions as well as its benefits under the right conditions. This article moves beyond the business case to present resources for intelligence stake…
As-Salaam-Alaikum, Bitches: The Biopolitics of Secularism, Neoliberal Multiculturalism, and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
Based on an analysis of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City ( RHOSLC ), we examine the role that secularism, as a biopolitical discourse, plays in rationalizing and entrenching racial capitalism through the cultural technology of reality television. We illuminate how secularism is interwoven in contemporary discourses of race, gender, sexuality, and class (e.g., post-race, postfeminism, sexual liberation, and spiritual neoliberalism), functioni…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Queer (5 works)