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Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies

Brianna I. Wiens

Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies foregrounds the importance of storytelling for coalition building, solidarity, and performative assembly. Bringing together scholars and activists from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, this book offers creative explorations, analyses, personal stories, and case studies of digital feminist activism that speak directly to the many ways that feminist communities assemble for the purposes of protest and resistance. Through various forms of feminist media mobilizations, from hashtag feminism and platform activism to personal blogs and meme accounts, these chapters explore how digital feminists use the long-standing tactics of storytelling to counter the dominant narratives of white supremacy, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and the intersecting oppressions that accompany such structures, both online and offline. By sharing stories of intersectional feminist assembly for collective justice, this book contributes to larger conversations about establishing alternative ways of seeing and being in the world, inviting others to assemble with us.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • Publish Date: Nov 21st, 2024
  • Pages: 258
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
  • EAN: 9781666913538
  • Categories: Gender StudiesAnthropology - Cultural & SocialWomen's Studies

About the Author

Brianna I. Wiens is assistant professor in English language and literature at the University of Waterloo.

Michelle MacArthur is associate professor at the University of Windsor's School of Dramatic Art.

Shana MacDonald is associate professor in communication arts at the University of Waterloo.

Milena Radzikowska is professor in information design at Mount Royal University.

Praise for this book

Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance expands our understanding of the multiple and varied ways that feminists engage with digital culture to produce a more just world. Through a diverse set of methods, theoretical orientations, and global case studies, the chapters illuminate and interrogate key questions about digital feminisms and their relationship to the politics of visibility, intersectional coalition-building, and affective social life. The stories documented throughout this book highlight the richness of the future of feminist digital media studies scholarship.

--Jessalynn Keller, University of Calgary