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Hybrid styles, interstitial spaces, and the digital advocacy of the Salafi feminist
Critical Studies in Media Communication ( IF 1.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-26 , DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2020.1786142
Kristin M. Peterson 1
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ABSTRACT This article examines the online advocacy work of Zainab bint Younus, a Canadian Muslim blogger who identifies herself online as the Salafi Feminist. In 2015, bint Younus curated a series of self-portraits from women who wear the niqab, the Islamic face veil. These photos show the women engaging with Western consumerism and popular culture, but they also employ the blended visual styles and the hybridity of digital spaces to deconstruct dominant binaries of Muslim women. While niqabis discuss being treated as sub-human in public spaces because of their covered faces, the digital media provide a creative space to speak back and demonstrate their agency. However, these digital projects go beyond simply creating a space of expression, as these Muslim women engage with tactics of hybridity, mimicry, and disidentification to work within Western cultural spaces, such as selfies, social media posts, and consumer sites, to destabilize Western feminist notions of the liberal, agentive subject. These photos subvert the assumption that self-portraits must show the face, as the women cover their faces with the niqab but illustrate their personalities through other means.

中文翻译:

混合风格、间隙空间和萨拉菲女权主义者的数字倡导

摘要 本文考察加拿大穆斯林博主 Zainab bint Younus 的在线宣传工作,她在网上自称为萨拉菲女权主义者。2015 年,宾特·尤努斯 (bint Younus) 策划了一系列来自佩戴伊斯兰面纱 niqab 的女性的自画像。这些照片展示了女性参与西方消费主义和流行文化的过程,但她们也运用混合的视觉风格和数字空间的混合性来解构穆斯林女性的主导二元体系。虽然 niqabis 讨论在公共场所因为被遮住脸而被视为次等人,但数字媒体提供了一个创造性的空间来反驳和展示他们的能动性。然而,这些数字项目不仅仅是创造一个表达空间,因为这些穆斯林女性采用混合、模仿、以及在西方文化空间(例如自拍、社交媒体帖子和消费者网站)内工作的身份认同,以动摇西方女性主义自由主义主体的观念。这些照片颠覆了自画像必须展示面部的假设,因为女性用面纱遮住了脸,但通过其他方式展示了她们的个性。
更新日期:2020-05-26
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