Arialle Crabtree is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies Program at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on social movements that address gender-based violence, heteronormative culture, and social institutions that perpetuate oppression. Her broader research interests also include gender representations in media, emotions, and identity in social movements, and the use of information communication technologies in social movements. She has published on social media use in the marriage equality movement in the journal of Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, as well as co-authored a chapter in Dr. Jim Dowd's forthcoming book, Social Life in the Movies: How Hollywood Imagines War, Schools, Romance, Aging, and Social Inequality.