Reading contemporary pop music - Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Calvin Harris - with and against political philosophers like Michel Foucault, feminists like Patricia Hill Collins, and media theorists like Steven Shaviro, 'Resilience & Melancholy' shows how resilience discourse manifests in both pop music and in feminist politics. In particular, it argues that resilient femininity is a post-feminist strategy for producing post-race white supremacy.