I’m Maggie, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information researching pornography platforms. My dissertation examines the platformization of cultural production through the case of Pornhub. Drawing from porn and platform studies, political economy, policy analysis and digital methods, I document new dynamics of technology, labour and governance in the porn industry.

You can find my latest work in Porn Studies, The Globe and Mail, AoIR’s Selected Papers of Internet Research, The Canadian Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, First Monday and The Walrus. I currently sit on the Advisory Board to Pornhub.

Through my doctoral research I have been named a 2024 Fellow at UCLA’s Centre for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2) and a Massey Junior Fellow, a 2023 Connaught PhD for Public Impact, and my dissertation is supported by Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). With a graduate specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies, I have assisted digitizing Canada’s largest pornography archive at the Bonham Sexual Representation Collection.

Finally, I’m supported by a strong local union through CUPE 3902 and am a proud member of the Free Speech Coalition defending sex workers and freedom of expression. Workers of the world, unite!