Dr Francesca Sobande is a writer and reader in digital media studies at Cardiff University (Wales/Cymru). Her books include The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Consuming Crisis: Commodifying Care and COVID-19 (SAGE, 2022), and Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture (University of California Press, 2024). Francesca is also co-author of Look, Don’t Touch: Reflections on the Freedom to Feel (404 Ink, 2025) and Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland (Bloomsbury, 2022), as well as the free and self-published graphic novel, Black Oot Here: Dreams O Us (2023). Her most recent writing includes the free and self-published zine, Black Life in / and "Alt" Music Subcultures (2025), in addition to an essay on “Echoes: Soft Space and Solidarity in the Legacy of Hardcore Punk” (Folding Rock).