Anna Hickey-Moody is Professor of Intersectional Humanities and Director of the Arts and Humanities Institute at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her research interests include disability, masculinity, gender, youth studies, religion, intersectionality and her publications include New Materialist Affirmations (2025, edited with Suvi Pihkala, Gretchen Coombs and Marissa Willcox), Faith Stories (2023) and Childhood, Citizenship and the Anthropocene (2021, with Linda Knight, Eloise Florence).Christine Horn is Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow in the Centre for Functional Ecology at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.Divya Garg is a Research Fellow in the Digital Disability, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion research program at Curtin University, Australia. Her monograph Decolonizing Media Fandom (2025) explores global fan cultures and minority experiences of disability.

• ContentsChapter 1: Navigating BelongingChapter 2: Rethinking Multiculturalism: Creative ResistanceChapter 3: Making Folk Media, Measuring AffectChapter 4: Folk Media as Art EducationChapter 5: Challenging Mainstream Representations: Children’s Digital Animations as Folk MediaChapter 6: Art as Decolonial PedagogyChapter 7: Finding Refuge: Exploring Art, Belonging and ActivismChapter 8: Interrogating Identities: Gender, Religion and RaceChapter 9: Intersectional Attachments: Belief, Belonging and PlaceChapter 10: Shaping the Discourse: Folk Media and Creative Agency

Anna Hickey-Moody is Professor of Intersectional Humanities and Director of the Arts and Humanities Institute at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her research interests include disability, masculinity, gender, youth studies, religion, intersectionality and her publications include New Materialist Affirmations (2025, edited with Suvi Pihkala, Gretchen Coombs and Marissa Willcox), Faith Stories (2023) and Childhood, Citizenship and the Anthropocene (2021, with Linda Knight, Eloise Florence).Christine Horn is Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow in the Centre for Functional Ecology at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.Divya Garg is a Research Fellow in the Digital Disability, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion research program at Curtin University, Australia. Her monograph Decolonizing Media Fandom (2025) explores global fan cultures and minority experiences of disability.

• ContentsChapter 1: Navigating BelongingChapter 2: Rethinking Multiculturalism: Creative ResistanceChapter 3: Making Folk Media, Measuring AffectChapter 4: Folk Media as Art EducationChapter 5: Challenging Mainstream Representations: Children’s Digital Animations as Folk MediaChapter 6: Art as Decolonial PedagogyChapter 7: Finding Refuge: Exploring Art, Belonging and ActivismChapter 8: Interrogating Identities: Gender, Religion and RaceChapter 9: Intersectional Attachments: Belief, Belonging and PlaceChapter 10: Shaping the Discourse: Folk Media and Creative Agency

Anna Hickey-Moody is Professor of Intersectional Humanities and Director of the Arts and Humanities Institute at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her research interests include disability, masculinity, gender, youth studies, religion, intersectionality and her publications include New Materialist Affirmations (2025, edited with Suvi Pihkala, Gretchen Coombs and Marissa Willcox), Faith Stories (2023) and Childhood, Citizenship and the Anthropocene (2021, with Linda Knight, Eloise Florence).Christine Horn is Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow in the Centre for Functional Ecology at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.Divya Garg is a Research Fellow in the Digital Disability, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion research program at Curtin University, Australia. Her monograph Decolonizing Media Fandom (2025) explores global fan cultures and minority experiences of disability.

• ContentsChapter 1: Navigating BelongingChapter 2: Rethinking Multiculturalism: Creative ResistanceChapter 3: Making Folk Media, Measuring AffectChapter 4: Folk Media as Art EducationChapter 5: Challenging Mainstream Representations: Children’s Digital Animations as Folk MediaChapter 6: Art as Decolonial PedagogyChapter 7: Finding Refuge: Exploring Art, Belonging and ActivismChapter 8: Interrogating Identities: Gender, Religion and RaceChapter 9: Intersectional Attachments: Belief, Belonging and PlaceChapter 10: Shaping the Discourse: Folk Media and Creative Agency