Maya Kokerov Writer/Editor

Maya Kokerov
2 min readDec 4, 2019

Email: Maya.kokerov@gmail.com

Recent Work:

The Indiependent

11 Important Books By Women You Should Be Reading In 2021

FGRLS CLUB

TikTok Is Letting Girls ‘Like Things’ Unapologetically

Grapefruit Soup

The digital rebirth of post-modern retrofuturism

Polis LSE’s (Journalism and Society Think Tank)

European journalism 2030: next generation scenarios

M100 Sanssouci Colloquium (Young Journalist Workshop):

The (positive) post-COVID media order: a road to more diverse and personal journalism

Video: Europe’s Media Landscape in 2030

Worked with three other young journalists to script, storyboard and voice-over the final video, which was animated and designed by nach morgen.

Future Farmer/Liberty Produce: (Marketing Executive 2019-present)

Is ‘organic’ really better?

How vertical farming changed the way I think (and eat!)

Reflecting on a light(n)ing year

Video Editor: Sowing the seeds for speed breeding in vertical farms

The Beaver: (Section Editor of Part B/arts & culture 2019–20)

Politicising the Feminine Gaze

The art of the scandalous nude

Mulholland Drive: Can Film Be Philosophy?

Talk To Her and the media’s dangerous sexualisation of victims

The Academia and the City of Sighs

Mary Sibande: I Came Apart at the Seams

3 Trans artists changing the game

Keshavarz’s Circumstance is one of disruption and defiance

Femininity is not a Weakness

The Boar:

Jorja Smith’s rising worldwide intrigue stems from her effortless versatility

WMG to road test self-driving cars in Coventry

Queen’s wedding cake restored by Warwick researchers

Pharos Magazine (Design Coordinator and Writer 2018–19)

Issue 10 (Wrote cover article)

Issue 8 (Designed the cover and layout)

Issue 7 (Designed the cover and layout)

Issue 6 (Designed the cover and layout)

Issue 5 (Designed the cover and layout)

Underlined Blog: (Editor in Chief 2018–19)

The Typology of The T Shirt

The Moments of New York Fashion Week: Then vs Now

My Goddess Complex: (Co-Founded Blog)

Grand Army: Just another teen drama?

NFR: Of Art & Authenticity

The Islamic Veil in Fanon’s Post-Colonial Psychoanalysis: a Changing Symbol

Social Media: Expressions of Psychological and Physical Personhood

Riot Grrrl Press: margin vs mainstream

Euphoria: The Show of a Generation

The most iconic looks of the decade

Feminist Aesthetics: Self-Objectification

Feminist Aesthetics: Film, Art and Pleasure

Feminist Aesthetics: The Oppositional Gaze

A full-proof guide to the Hollywood wax

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Maya Kokerov

LSE ’20 Media and Communications Masters student. Warwick ’19 Philosophy and Literature Grad. Arts & Culture Editor https://beaveronline.co.uk/.