Skylar Clark is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Rhetoric, Media, and Publics program. Skylar earned her BA in English and Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley before coming to Northwestern. Her current research examines feminist responses to right-wing populist attacks on “gender ideology,” with a particular focus on how post-communist transformations in Poland have reshaped liberal democratic imaginaries, influenced conceptualizations of feminist solidarity, and prompted the emergent role of collective creativity in counterpublic discourse. Drawing on archival research, modes of cultural analysis, and transnational feminist theory, her work explores the affective and rhetorical strategies through which feminist and queer communities contest reactionary narratives around gender and sexuality.