“Fuck Your Body Image”: Teen Girls’ Twitter and Instagram Feminism in and Around School

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).…”

“…Our study is situated within a fascinating cultural moment whereby both feminism and misogyny are increasingly visible, in near constant circulation within popular media cultures Yet alongside images of American pop singer Beyoncé dancing in front of an illuminated screen reading 'FEMINIST' (Valenti, 2014), global SlutWalks making headlines (Mendes, 2015), and teenage girls becoming feminist activists online and in their schools Keller & Ringrose, 2015;Retallack, Ringrose & Lawrence, 2016), overt sexism appears to have become simultaneously visible across online and offline spaces. Indeed, misogyny and the abuse of women is interwoven through websites like Reddit (Massanari, 2015), informs incidents of trolling directed towards female video game critics and developers (Wu 2014), and has plagued women who advocate for public visibility, such as the death and rape threats received by British journalist Caroline…”

The affective, cultural and psychic life of postfeminism: A postfeminist sensibility 10 years on

“…For some, the new cultural prominence accorded to feminism means that we should radically rethink 'postfeminism', perhaps even jettison the term from our critical vocabulary (Keller and Ryan, 2015;Retallack et al, 2016). Elsewhere (Gill, 2016), I have discussed this in detail, putting forward a defence of the term, and arguing that we are far from being post-postfeminism.…”

Adolescents Becoming Feminist on Twitter: New Literacies Practices, Commitments, and Identity Work

“…Third, this study suggests the importance of feminist identity work on Twitter. Despite research suggesting that “Twitter is overwhelmingly a toxic place for women” (Retallack et al, , p. 86), and while not dismissing the real threats and misogyny that women face online, I agree with Retallack et al and others who have suggested that Twitter may be a place for young women and men to develop feminist identities through meaningful contributions to feminist discourse. By leveraging the power of their network to share information, young people are contributing to the development of a powerful feminist discourse in the United States, a much‐needed antidote to a long history of inequity, discrimination, and sexist oppression.…”