In the News

I’ve been interviewed for several news outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, NPR, USA Today, NPR France, Glamour Magazine, The Orlando Sentinel, The Tampa Bay Times, and other outlets. I’ve also been a research guide for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Reuters, and The Independent.

I’m always happy to act as a resource for journalists looking to get information on gender, media, inequality, feminism, politics, culture, and higher education.

Selected Quotes:

“Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, a sociology professor at Valencia College who studies gender and media, says Doyle has long since ascended to more rarefied heights. ‘If we’re going to put her in the lineup of books that have changed women’s lives — Betty Friedan, Erica Jong, Gloria Steinem — she fits there,” Trier-Bieniek says. “But she’s learned from where their misses were. She’s figured out that you can’t tell your story without also talking about your flaws, or where you don’t know something, or where you’ve made your epic failures.” Doyle is conscious of her privilege as a cisgender White woman, for example, and “does a great job at saying ‘I have a seat at the table, and I’m going to bring up as many diverse voices as I can, and I’m going to let them speak, and I’m going to listen.’” (The Washington Post, 2022)

“‘If you can have women competing against each other, it’s great television,’ said Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, a sociology professor at Valencia College in Florida who researches the relationship between pop culture and social inequality. ‘For pop culture, it’s like a trope.’ But, I asked her, why are movies and television shows so slow to catch on to how women regard their marriage and individuality in the real world? She offered me a heavy sigh in response: ‘One of the hardest things you can do is change a culture,’ she said.’Our media does a really good job of ingraining in girls and women: Weddings are your day.’” (The New York Times, 2020)

“This is what experts call ‘The Beyoncé Effect.’ Professor Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, editor of the 2016 book The Beyoncé Effect: Essays on Sexuality, Race and Feminism, weighed in on why messaging from Beyoncé hits harder than messaging from any other famous person. Beyoncé is super smart and savvy, and she's tapping into the reality that people are rethinking their lives after living through years of COVID, Trier-Bieniek argues. ‘She’s saying, ‘It’s okay if you feel this way, you’re entitled to these feelings.’ That’s what makes her a powerful performer—she really does tell people, especially Black women, ‘You are wonderful the way you are, you don’t need to change that.’” Trier-Bieniek cites Toi Derricotte, a Black woman poet who is often associated with Beyoncé through a line in Derricotte's work: ‘Joy is an act of resistance.’” (Glamour, 2022)

"“Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, a qualitative researcher who examines the connection between pop culture and social inequality, including how gender is presented in media, called it a ‘cheap move,’ especially in the #MeToo era, and said she did not understand why Eastwood chose to depict Scruggs that way. ‘It seems presumably that they're trying to tell the story of this man's awful experience," she said, referring to Jewell. "I'm not sure why we needed to have the scene of her sleeping with a source to get there.’" (NBC News, 2019)