Nicky Falkof is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the author of The End of Whiteness: Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa (2015) and Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa (2022) and co-editor of Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City (2020) and Intimacy & Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa (2022). In this conversation, we discuss her book Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa.