Networked Feminisms

The essays in this collection outline how feminists employ a variety of digital practices and tools to create spaces of solidarity, archive important feminist digital culture work, and offer blueprints for future feminist action.

The collection of essays outlines how feminists employ a variety of online platforms, practices, and tools to create spaces of solidarity and to articulate a critical politics that refuses popular forms of individual, consumerist, white feminist empowerment in favor of collective, tangible action. Including scholars and activists from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, these essays help to catalog the ways in which feminists are organizing online to mobilize different feminist, queer, trans, disability, reproductive justice, and racial equality movements. Together, these perspectives offer a comprehensive overview of how feminists are employing the tools of the internet for political change. Grounded in intersectional feminism––a perspective that attends to the interrelatedness of power and oppression based on race, class, gender, ability, sexuality, and other identities––this book gathers provocations, analyses, creative explorations, theorizations, and case studies of networked feminist activist practices. In doing so, this collection archives important work already done within feminist digital cultures and acts as a vital blueprint for future feminist action.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Feminist Takes on Networking Justice

Chapter 1: A Sign of the Times: Hashtag Feminism as a Conceptual Framework, Tara L. Conley

Chapter 2: Virtual Sojourners: The Duality of Visibility and Erasure for Black Women and LGBTQ People in the Digital Age, Melissa Brown

Chapter 3: Chronic Fem(me)bots: Keywords for Crip Feminists, Adan Jerreat-Poole

Chapter 4: Virtual Dwelling: Feminist Orientations to Digital Communities, Brianna I. Wiens

Chapter 5: Native and Indigenous Women’s Cyber-Defense of Lands and Peoples, Marisa Elena Duarte

Chapter 6: “Being Seen for Who I Am”: Counterpublic Trans Intelligibility and Queer Worldmaking on YouTube, Ace J. Eckstein

Chapter 7: Online (Indian/South Asian) Digital Protest Publics Negotiating #POC, #BIPOC, and #anticaste, Radhika Gajjala, Sarah Ford, Vijeta Kumar, and Sujatha Subramanian

Chapter 8: Affect Amplifiers: Feminist Activists and Digital Cartographies of Feminicide, Helena Suárez Val

Chapter 9: Reproductive Justice and Activism Online: Digital Feminisms and Organizational/Activist Use of Social Networking Sites, Leandra H. Hernández and Sarah De Los Santos Upton

Chapter 10: Racial Justice and Scholar-Activism, Angela Smith, Ihudiya Finda Williams, and Alexandra To

Chapter 11: Hope Wears A White Collar: RBG Memes and Signifying Intergenerational Solidarity, Elizabeth Nathanson

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