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#solidarity

#YesAllWomen

#BlackLivesMatter

#YesAllWomen

  • #YesAllWomen (created by a young American hijabi Muslim woman)
  • Started May 24th, 2014
  • 1.2 million tweets in 2-3 days

Source: http://mashable.com/2014/05/26/yesallwomen-hashtag/#HBRarHRxckqU

#BlackLivesMatter

  • #BlackLivesMatter (created by 3 young queer black women)
  • Started in 2013

Sources; http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54cd497fe4b0f397549ad63e/551f13bbe4b01852f6ef4649/553bd1cae4b06f8ca0c8a4bf/1430257489184/?format=1500w

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Alicia Garza

Opal Tometi

Patrisse Cullors

#SayItIn140characters

  • Trivializing
     
  • More than trends
     
  • Real choices

i.e. what #? and why?

#nakamura

  • In LambdaMOO, "Gender is an element of identity which must be defined by each player ... the choice is not optional"
     
  • "However, race is not an "option" which must be chosen–though players can elect to write it into their descriptions"

Source: Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" by Lisa Nakamura

#fail?

[short and viral hashtags] vs. ongoing movements

 

#BringBackOurGirls (Oby Ezekwesili + Ibrahim M. Abdullahi)

April 2014

i.e. who uses #? and why?

Source: http://www.dw.com/en/the-tweet-that-launched-bringbackourgirls/a-17630568

#WhatDoÜMean

  • Empowering women of colour?
     
  • Support for multifaceted movements?
     
  • Limiting identities and solidarity or fine-tuning?

#thanks

Here are my notes!

GNDR STD 376 Final Project: #activism

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GNDR STD 376 Final Project: #activism

My final project presentation for my Gender Studies class on Imagining the Internet.

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