ABSTRACT

The #Metoo movement spread globally to include women in India who were employing social media platforms to discuss their experiences in sexual abuse and harassment. This paper investigates through literature review and data collection, why #MeTooIndia demonstrates a non-inclusivity towards marginalized, and gendered bodies and narratives on the Twitter platform. This exclusion is primarily the product of increased attention to issues of sexual abuse among the Indian elite including Bollywood celebrities, journalists, politicians, and well-known media personalities who employ Twitter as a space for “coming-out.” Secondly, non-inclusivity is evidenced through lack of discussion on the question of sexual abuse, and harassment in the daily lives of Dalit, trans women, women of lower caste and class, and other marginalized and gendered communities that have vastly different experiences of sexual abuse than the elite, urban woman. Finally, exclusion is exposed through the sparsity of personal narratives under the same hashtags owing to masculine toxicity as well as the creation of unsafe spaces for gendered minorities to recount their experiences. This research employs theory of intersectionality to ultimately rethink how to design and organize feminist movements online in order to create safer, more inclusive, and intersectional spaces for feminist activism.

摘要

#Metoo 运动在全球蔓延，包括印度女性，她们使用社交媒体平台讨论她们在性虐待和性骚扰方面的经历。本文通过文献回顾和数据收集调查，为什么#MeTooIndia 在 Twitter 平台上表现出对边缘化和性别化身体和叙述的非包容性。这种排斥主要是印度精英对性虐待问题日益关注的产物，这些精英包括宝莱坞名人、记者、政治家和知名媒体人士，他们将 Twitter 作为“出柜”的空间。其次，缺乏对达利特人、跨性别女性、低种姓和阶级女性日常生活中的性虐待和骚扰问题的讨论证明了不包容性，以及其他边缘化和性别化的社区，他们的性虐待经历与精英城市女性截然不同。最后，由于男性毒性以及为性别少数群体创造不安全的空间来讲述他们的经历，同一主题标签下的个人叙述稀疏，从而暴露出排斥。本研究运用交叉理论最终重新思考如何设计和组织在线女权运动，以便为女权活动创造更安全、更具包容性和交叉性的空间。由于男性毒性以及为性别少数群体创造不安全的空间来讲述他们的经历，同一主题标签下的个人叙述稀疏，从而暴露出排斥。本研究运用交叉理论最终重新思考如何设计和组织在线女权运动，以便为女权活动创造更安全、更具包容性和交叉性的空间。由于男性毒性以及为性别少数群体创造不安全的空间来讲述他们的经历，同一主题标签下的个人叙述稀疏，从而暴露出排斥。本研究运用交叉理论最终重新思考如何设计和组织在线女权运动，以便为女权活动创造更安全、更具包容性和交叉性的空间。