Social Media and Feminist Activism

Hussen, Tigist Shewarega

doi:10.4324/9781315270470-12

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“…64 On social media, the collective noun fallism emerged to unite these and other movements using the "Must Fall" hashtag, with #Fallist po liti cal movements demonstrating the power of online social movements. 65 The "Must Fall" hashtag extended to explic itly feminist critiques, such as #PatriarchyMustFall and #RapeMustFall, exposing sexism and the erasure and silencing of women within these student movements (Hussen 2018;Maluleke and Moyer 2020). Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon describe the rising importance of these movements-and feminism within them-pointing out, "This period has seen calls to decolonise education, interrogate the trappings of postapartheid democracy, and critique rainbow nation myth-making and its obsession with reclaiming cultural difference" (2021,5).…”

Section: #Handsoffcaster and #Iaafmustfall: Semenya's Past And Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

Envisioning African Intersex

2023

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In 2009, South African Caster Semenya won the 800-meter event at the World Championships in Athletics in track and field. But instead of celebrating her victory, Semenya faced accusations that her body was "too masculine" for her to compete in women's sport. Sporting authorities, doctors, and the media claimed that Semenya was intersex. Over the following de cade, she was subjected to international scrutiny: her body was photographed, she endured explorations of her reproductive organs, and her chromosomes and hormones were evaluated to determine her eligibility to compete in women's sport. Decisions about the "truth" of her gender changed again and again over the following de cade, as supposed experts fought over the par ameters of womanhood and the course of her life. Now with two Olympic gold medals to her name, Semenya continues to contest regulations that currently bar her from her sport. The latest decisions of the International Olympic Organ izing Committee prohibit Semenya from competing in the 800-meter event unless she undertakes surgery or pharmaceutically alters her natu ral testosterone levels (an intervention that previously made her physically ill). Recent headlines indicate the global importance of these conversations, Introduction. Pathologizing Gender Binaries Intersex Images and Citational Chains

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Section: #Handsoffcaster and #Iaafmustfall: Semenya's Past And Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

Envisioning African Intersex

2023

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“…There has been widespread activism against racism, poverty, sexual violence, and exclusions of queer people, amongst other intersectional foci at many of the universities over the last few years. The activism of queer, decolonial, feminist students in particular acted to disrupt heteronormative, racist, and classist imaginaries, foregrounding intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and other marginalities and subalternities (Xaba, 2017;Gouws, 2017, Hussen, 2018Shefer, 2019).…”

Section: South African Contexts Of Changementioning

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Transities in kunst, cultuur en politiek

Ponzanesi,

Thiele,

Midden

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In deze bundel staat de rol van kunst, cultuur en politiek bij transities en de strijd voor sociale rechtvaardigheid centraal. Soms zijn deze transities traumatische en gewelddadige processen zoals in het geval van Zuid-Afrika na de apartheid. In andere gevallen, zoals in Europa, gaat het om langdurige geschiedenissen die verband hebben met kolonialisme, de holocaust en totalitarisme. De auteurs verkennen intersectionele vraagstukken van transitie en sociale verandering in samenhang met bredere debatten over de rol van democratie, burgerschap en mensenrechten. Ze gaan daarbij een dialoog aan met het werk van feministische wetenschapper Rosemarie Buikema.

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“…The body has traditionally been the central element of political engagement in protest and civil disobedience (Hussen, 2018, O'Keefe, 2011. For young people, however, their civic positioning as "citizens in waiting" or "becomings" (Lee, 2001;Jerome and Starkey, 2021) compromises their political power and visibility in protest and peaceful assembly (Hussen, 2018). Hussen (2018) argues that physical space merges with the online space created on different social media platforms and that in some ways, virtual spaces expand beyond territorial limitations of physical public spaces (see also McPherson et al, 2019).…”

Section: Youth (Political) Participation In Social Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For young people, however, their civic positioning as "citizens in waiting" or "becomings" (Lee, 2001;Jerome and Starkey, 2021) compromises their political power and visibility in protest and peaceful assembly (Hussen, 2018). Hussen (2018) argues that physical space merges with the online space created on different social media platforms and that in some ways, virtual spaces expand beyond territorial limitations of physical public spaces (see also McPherson et al, 2019). This is especially important as youth access to civic space is shrinking (UN Human Rights Council, 2016;UN, 2021;Cho et al, 2020) and the digital environment allows them to bypass adult structures (Cho et al, 2020).…”

Section: Youth (Political) Participation In Social Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“I Will Not Stand Aside and Watch. I Will Not be Silent”

Hanna,

Martinez Sainz

2023

Int. J. Child. Rights

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Children are not typically considered as being “political”, but they do possess the right to freedom of association and peaceful assembly under international human rights instruments such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Nonetheless, a lack of commentary and jurisprudence on this right of children and young people has left it largely unexplored. This article presents the findings from a digital ethnography during the #FridaysForFuture and #ClimateStrikeOnline strikes in 2020 during which young people claimed their right to freedom of assembly both in person and online. Focusing on the right to freedom of assembly, we apply Bennett and Segerberg’s (2012) concept of “connective action” to conceptualise these rights for children and young people under the uncrc, and present a four-part model that captures young people’s exercise of their rights as “connect”, “express”, “collect” and “enact”.

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Social Media and Feminist Activism

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Envisioning African Intersex

Envisioning African Intersex

Transities in kunst, cultuur en politiek

“I Will Not Stand Aside and Watch. I Will Not be Silent”

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