Saara Särmä is a feminist, an artist and a researcher in International Relations at the University of Tampere, Finland, where she received a doctorate in 2014. Saara’s doctoral dissertation, Junk Feminism and Nuclear Wannabe: Collaging Parodies of Iran and North Korea, focused on internet parody images and memes, and developed a unique art-based collage methodology for studying world politics. She’s interested in politics of visuality, feminist academic activism, and laughter in world politics. Currently she is working on developing the visual collage methodology further as both a research and a pedagogical tool and is experimenting with collective possibilities of collaging. Her artwork can be seen at www.huippumisukka.fi.