Slut-shaming, girl power and ‘sexualisation’: thinking through the politics of the international SlutWalks with teen girls

Speaking ‘unspeakable things’: documenting digital feminist responses to rape culture

“…This strategy allowed us to 'find' moments of feminist activism within the Twitterverse, examples which may have gone undetected by solely focusing on an analysis of hashtags, for instance. In this paper, we focus on the teenage responses (ages 14-19) from this sample, as teen feminism (Ringrose & Renold, 2012) and particularly teen feminists' uses of social media platforms in the context of school has been underresearched in academic literature on digital activism (for exception see Retallack et al, 2016).…”

“…Scholars have been particularly interested in this question over the past decade, suggesting that digital media is being used to organize around political issues (Chattopadhyay, 2011;Juris, 2008;Mendes 2015), build expansive communities of deliberation and action (Gerbaudo, 2012;Lim, 2012), and disseminate information widely throughout both online and offline spaces (Lim, 2012). More specifically, feminist scholarship has mapped how girls and women are creating online cultures of support for victims of sexual assault and violence Mendes, 2015;Puente, 2011;Rentschler, 2014), generating and circulating feminist discourses that counter patriarchal ones Mendes, 2015;Shaw, 2012;Thrift, 2014), and interrupt rape culture through a variety of creative interventions, such as the mobile phone app 'Not Your Baby' (Rentschler, 2014) and the organization and participation in the global SlutWalks (Ringrose & Renold, 2012;Mendes, 2015).…”

Shameless hags and tolerance whores: feminist resistance and the affective circuits of online hate

“…Emphasizing anger as a way out of shame and fear was an early feminist tactic, and the move through shame into pride was in line with the tactics of the gay pride and the black power movements. This has long involved the appropriation of hateful terminology, from cultural feminists reclaiming hags and crones for gynocentric purposes (e.g., Mary Daly 1978), to the repurposing of terms such as "queer" or "dyke" as sources of pride (see Claudia Bianchi 2014;Robin Brontsema 2004), and the more recent Slut Walks opposing slut-shaming and gendered victim-blaming in incidents of sexual crime (Jessica Ringrose and Emma Renold 2012). Appropriation has been broadly recognized as a tactic of the subaltern to turn the strategies of shaming and ridicule into potential sources of empowerment.…”

‘Lad culture’ in higher education: Agency in the sexualization debates

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