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McDermott, Victoria, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, and Amy R. May (Editors). Supporting the Military-Affiliated Learner: Communication Approaches to Military Pedagogy and Education. Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Mitchell Friedman
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Yanity, Molly, and Danielle Sarver Coombs (Editors). 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup: Media, Fandom, and Soccer’s Biggest Stage. Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Rina Juwita
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Bodies on the Line vs. Bodies Online: A Feminist Phenomenology of Digitally Mediated Political Action Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Sumru Atuk, Alyson Cole
Many scholars and commentators dismiss digitally mediated activism as an inadequate and inferior form of political participation. Such disparagements ignore accounts from feminist, disabled, BIPOC,...
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Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies. Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Catherine E. Polley
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Harris, Leslie J. The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity. Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-07 October Heffner
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Stalled Life with Rhetoric: Notorious RBG and the Limits of Feminist Imagery Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Haley Swartz
New materialist methods often frame networked images as dynamic, bouncing across the network in contiguous and proximate iterations. Positing that a networked life of an image stalls, this article ...
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(Re)productive Dissent: Reproductive Justice in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Calvin R. Coker, Abigail Faulstick
The overturn of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in June 2022 solidified the patchwork nature of abortion access in the United States and clarified, for some, the need to move beyond a f...
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Toward Mainstreaming of Feminist (Counter)Publics? The Networked Structure of Feminist Activism on Twitter Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Miriam Siemon, Daniel Maier, Barbara Pfetsch
This study investigates the roles of feminist actors in the Twitter discourse about sexualized violence that came up during the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a U.S. Supreme Court justice in Oc...
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After Roe: Teaching and Researching Reproductive Justice Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Lore/tta LeMaster
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Thingified Flesh: A Womanist Approach to De/Colonial Reproductive Politics and Research Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Lisa B. Y. Calvente
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Crafting a Critical Pedagogical Landscape in a Post-Roe Dystopia Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Elise Higgins, Meggie Mapes, Lore/tta LeMaster
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Can You Tell by Looking at Me? Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Billy Huff
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Dobbs, Reproductive Justice, and the Promise of Decolonial and Black Trans Feminisms Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Embracing Jane’s Uncivil Tongue: Pro-Choice Failures and Post-Roe Futures Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Cassidy D. Ellis
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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The Specter of Shame: Affective Historiography and New Methods in Abortion Research Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Micki Burdick
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2023)
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Care and Constraints in the Climate Crisis: An Intersectional Rhetorical Analysis of News Comments about the El Dorado Fire Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Emma Frances Bloomfield, Rebecca M. Rice
In September 2020, a gender reveal party started the El Dorado Fire in southern California. We analyzed comments on news coverage of the fire from two outlets with different political leanings to e...
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Singled Out and Mocked: Intersection of (Hetero)Sexism and Ableism and Mobilization of Anti-Discourses in Online Hatred towards Hypervisibilized Youth Activists Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Lenka Vochocová
This article contributes to the relatively scarce research on the intersection of various anti-discourses in online hatred by focusing on online verbal attacks on publicly active, nonmature actors ...
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Johnson, Amber L., and LeMaster, Benny (Editors). Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography: Embodied Theorizing from the Margins Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Jillian Klean Zwilling
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Lewis, Tiffany. Uprising: How Women Used the US West to Win the Right to Vote Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Alexandra Parr Balaram
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Hanchey, Jenna. The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Lana Medina
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Jackson, Regina, and Rao, Saira. White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Hailey Schumann
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Lawson, Caitlin E. Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Emma Lynn
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Nish, Jennifer. Activist Literacies: Transnational Feminisms and Social Media Rhetorics Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Alisa D. Hardy
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Carr, Bryan J., and Carstarphen, Meta G. (Editors). Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Amika Starr
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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Montell, Amanda. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language. Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Marge Strong
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023)
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“Didn’t She Used to Sell That WAP?”: Cardi B, Clashing Femininities, and Citizenship Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Raquel Moreira
Abstract “Didn’t she used to sell that WAP?” tweeted Afro-Latina rapper Cardi B on August 16, 2020, in response to California congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine’s post: “America needs far more women like Melania [Trump] and far less like Cardi B.” This exchange and others foreground this article’s argument—namely, that conservative reactions to Cardi B’s performances of racialized and classed
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Diffractive Menstruation: Toward a Technical-Rhetorical Perspective of Menstrual Health Technologies Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Melissa Stone
Abstract This article provides a technical-rhetorical perspective regarding the impact of historical menstrual health technologies through a material feminist approach. My Baradian diffractive analysis builds on previous work from material feminist scholars as well as feminist technical-rhetorical scholars to explain how menstruation and the innovation of menstrual health technologies are often predicated
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“Periods Don’t Stop for Pandemics”: The Implications of COVID-19 for Online and Offline Menstrual Activism in Great Britain Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Maria Kathryn Tomlinson
Abstract Menstrual activists have long adopted an intersectional approach in their work to reduce period poverty, eradicate menstrual stigma, and educate audiences about health and sustainability. By forcing offline activities to cease, COVID-19 created unprecedented barriers for menstrual activists, including the closure of offline spaces and social distancing. Lockdown, however, provided a unique
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Anti-TERF: Trans Feminisms against White Nationalist Projects—Introductory Remarks Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Lore/tta LeMaster
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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What’s the Point of Feminisms if They Can’t Be Trans? Una reflexión desde o sur Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-03 The Anti-Colonial Death Studies Collective
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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TERF Logics Are Carceral Logics: Toward the Abolition of Gender-Critical Movements or Black Trans Life as Pedagogical Praxis Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Qui Dorian Alexander
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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“Gender-Critical” Discourse as Disinformation: Unpacking TERF Strategies of Political Communication Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Thomas J Billard
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Transfeminist Possibilities and Remembering the 1970s Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Morgan DiCesare, E Cram
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Erotics of Epidemicity: Captivity and Refusal in Mediations of Black Trans Life and Death Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Ashley Noel Mack
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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The Impossible Trans Body: Non/Images of Gender in Regimes of Whiteness Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-03 V. Jo Hsu
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023)
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Cracking the Cracked-Up System: Shared Stories from Interstage Academic Feminist Collaboration Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Gabriela I. Morales, Jennifer R. Bender, Brooke Hildebrand Clubbs, Sumaira Abrar, Cecilia Cerja
Abstract The concept of “cracking the cracked-up system” was introduced in a 2018 National Communication Association (NCA) convention panel. The panel’s purpose was to bring voices together and validate both presenters’ and members’ experiences in higher education. Several women have contributed to the conversation across the years, and these conversations have crafted sustained interstage feminist
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“I Never Liked Him”: Ryan Adams and the Toxification of Masculinity in the Post-MeToo Digital Era Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Brenton J. Malin
Abstract This article explores the Twitter response to reports of abusive behavior by U.S.-based singer-songwriter Ryan Adams. Using a combination of quantitative data analysis techniques and close textual and contextual analysis, I analyze an archive of more than 130,000 tweets taken from the week prior to the initial reporting of Adams’s behavior in February 2019 and continuing until March 2021.
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“They’re All Honky Bros…”: Exploring Canadian Women of Color’s Experiences Using Geosocial Networking Applications Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Amy Matharu, Eric Filice, Diana C. Parry, Corey W. Johnson
Abstract Digital-sexual racism is mediated though geosocial networking applications (GSNAs), also known as dating/hookup apps. Digital-sexual racism seeks to explain how access to multiple profiles, emphasis on self-presentation, and increased anonymity found on GSNAs results in racism and discrimination for people of color. Scholars have started to explore digital-sexual racism on GSNAs; however,
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The Viewer-As-Detective: Big Little Lies and the Productive Liminality of Complex Mystery Television Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Sierra Dann, Sheryl Cunningham
Abstract This research utilizes aspects of narrative and ideological criticism to analyze complex mystery television and representations of women. Using the first season of Big Little Lies, the authors argue that the disruption of narrative conventions creates a productive liminality in which the viewer takes on the role of detective. This positioning of the viewer-as-detective encourages viewers to
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Killing a “Monster”: Lisa Montgomery, Carceral Logics, and the Rhetoric of Sexual Trauma Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Stephanie R. Larson
Abstract What happens when we treat sexual trauma as a disability? This article examines the federal execution case of Lisa Montgomery, who murdered Bobbie Jo Stinnett and kidnapped her baby, with this question as its motivation. Prior to execution, dozens of clemency petitions circulated publicly, revealing how Montgomery was repeatedly subjected to instances of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse
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Sex, Consent, and Justice: A New Feminist Framework Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Courtney Tabor
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media. Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Riana Slyter
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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Data Feminism. Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Kelsey Dufresne
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice. Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Shelby R. Crow
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023)
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Trans Relational Ambivalences: A Critical Analysis of Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Relational (Un)Belonging in Sports Contexts Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Lore/tta LeMaster, Alaina Zanin, Lucy C. Niess, Haley Lucero
Abstract This study explores ways trans and gender-nonconforming athletes navigate a sense of relational (un)belonging in sport contexts. Our research reveals dialectic movements between feelings of inclusion/exclusion juxtaposed with the structural being of inclusion/exclusion. More specifically, the feeling of inclusion/exclusion gestures to individual sensed experiences of (un)belonging, while the
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Ace Awakening: Communication Sources That Lead to Affirming Asexual-Spectrum Identities Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-19 ben Brandley
Abstract Despite important inquiries on queerness, communication scholars have yet to explore the lives of folks on the asexual spectrums (also known as “ace”). This study brings attention to how rhetorics of allonormativity, or the discursive and material forces that discriminate against aces, influence ace identity. By providing in-depth and rich qualitative interview data gifted by 20 ace interviewees
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Of Markets, Masks, and (White) Men: Mimetic Performances of Parasitic Publicity During the COVID-19 Pandemic Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Nicholas S. Paliewicz, Emma Frances Bloomfield
Abstract This article argues that the anti-masking and anti-vaccination subreddit community known as r/NoNewNormal is an example of a parasitic public that circulates feelings of autonomy, victimization, and militancy to advance white masculinity in the public sphere. This bundle of affects thrives parasitically on the corrosiveness of deliberative democracy and neoliberal antagonisms (e.g., mask mandates
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Introduction: Remembering bell hooks Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Catherine R. Squires
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2022)
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Friendship, Fellowship, Fury Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Moya Bailey
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2022)
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What’s [Black] Love Got to Do with It? bell hooks and Black Love in Popular Culture Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Lily Kunda
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2022)
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Developing an Oppositional Gaze: Learning to Look with bell hooks Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Courtney M. Cox
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2022)
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bell hooks’s Oppositional Gaze and Black Feminist Film Production in Brazil Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Reighan Gillam
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2022)
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Healing Is an Act of Communion Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Sarah J. Jackson
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2022)
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The Teenage Latina Genius on Television: Netflix’s Ashley Garcia Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Diana Leon-Boys, Claudia Bucciferro
Abstract This article examines a recent mediated version of Latina girlhood, the teenage science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) genius, through an analysis of a Netflix original series: Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love (2020). The series offers a representation of girlhood that does not fully align with either the “at-risk” or the “can-do” girls that have appeared previously on television.
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Against Gender Essentialism: Reproductive Justice Doulas and Gender Inclusivity in Pregnancy and Birth Discourse Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Abstract This article explores how reproductive justice (RJ) doulas support trans and nonbinary birthing people, while advancing more inclusive practices within the birth world. We begin by tracing historical changes in mainstream birth and pregnancy care to highlight how biological naturalism and woman-centered discourse became ingrained. Then, we analyze primary data, such as participant observations
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Reflections: Sexual Violence in India and the Possibilities and Limits of Digital Activism Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Maitrayee Basu, Radhika Gajjala, Pallavi Guha, Vijeta Kumar, Riddhima Sharma, Sujatha Subramanian, Tarishi Verma
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2022)
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From #Sexual Assault to #Political Campaign Issue: Understanding Sexual Assault Narratives on Social Media Platforms During Political Campaigns in India Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Pallavi Guha
Abstract In recent years, online election campaigns in India have evolved beyond using only Twitter and Facebook to take advantage of the population’s continuing interest in other social media platforms. Hashtag campaigns are now found on other platforms, such as Instagram, WhatsApp, and YouTube. With this development, online discourses on political campaigns have matured and become diverse. Several
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Gendered Indian Digital Publics Along Matrices of Domination/Oppression Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Radhika Gajjala, Swati Kamble, Maitrayee Basu, Vijeta Kumar, Ololade Faniyi
Published in Women's Studies in Communication (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2022)
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Investigating Shame in the Age of Social Media Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Tarishi Verma
Abstract Shame is one of the feelings most commonly associated with sexual assault—whether it is shame felt by those who know the survivor or the shame the survivor often feels. The #MeToo movement allowed many survivors to confront this shame and recount their experiences on social media. In the same vein, the 2017 List of Sexual Harassers in Academia (LoSHA) set out to expose incidents of sexual
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Toward an Anti-Caste and Feminist Vision of Transformative Justice: Analyzing Social Media Activism Against Sexual Violence Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Sujatha Subramanian, Riddhima Sharma
Abstract This article attempts to understand how ideas of justice are conceptualized within social media discourses around gender and sexual violence in India through an intersectional analysis of two case studies: the case of the rape and murder of a Hyderabad veterinarian and the List of Sexual Harassers in Academia, or LoSHA, which generated many conversations on sexual violence and justice on Twitter