Reckoning with the Silences of #MeToo

Tambe, Ashwini

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“…For beneficiaries of whiteness, its hegemonic qualities are often unseen, even though they actively participate in its maintenance through "racial stereotypes and biases (a beliefs aspect), racial metaphors and concepts (a deeper cognitive aspect), racialised images (the visual aspect), racialised emotions (feelings), interpretive racial narratives, and inclinations to discriminate within a broad racial framing" (Feagin, 2013, p. 91). White supremacist power dynamics have co-opted the mainstream #MeToo movement (Phipps, 2019;Tambe, 2018), and in public digital feminisms more broadly, reproduced race-neutral ideologies (Patil & Puri, 2021) and centred white, middle-class women as a universal subject position (Travers, 2003). In the pages that follow, we explore how whiteness manifests in the designs of anti-violence apps, a mainstream feminist intervention, encoding race neutrality and heteronormativity within assumptions about victims of GBV and their needs.…”

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“…(1) the effort to replace institutional accomplices, which locates the accountability problem among individual actors; and(2) the introduction of a new third-party governing body and anti-violence app, SafeSport. Imagined as a reliable authority, SafeSport allows survivors to perform a kind of technically sanctioned victimhood-where their reports of violence are captured, preserved, and circulated as data capital.…”

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Whiteness in and through data protection: an intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots

Shelby¹,

Harb²,

Henne³

2021

Internet Policy Review

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This article analyses apps and artificial intelligence chatbots designed to offer survivors of sexual violence with emergency assistance, education, and a means to report and build evidence against perpetrators. Demonstrating how these technologies both confront and constitute forms of oppression, this analysis complicates assumptions about data protection through an intersectional feminist examination of these digital tools. In surveying different anti-violence apps, we interrogate how the racial formation of whiteness manifests in ways that can be understood as the political, representational, and structural intersectional dimensions of data protection. Issue 4This paper is part of Feminist data protection, a special issue of Internet Policy Review

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Whiteness in and through data protection: an intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots

Shelby¹,

Harb²,

Henne³

2021

Internet Policy Review

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“…For some individuals, implicit exchanges are not likely to be associated with future negative outcomes, such as in instances where people have been able to negotiate their sexual boundaries, refuse sex or offer an alternative way to obtain drugs (i.e., such as monetary payment) and where there are no negative consequence to saying "no" (Tambe, 2018). However, the idea that drugs and sex should be exchanged could limit people's perceived or actual sexual freedoms.…”

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Making and Communicating Decisions About Sexual Consent During Drug-Involved Sex: A Thematic Synthesis

Smith

Kolokotroni

Turner-Moore

2020

The Journal of Sex Research

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Sexual consent is a central component in the primary prevention of sexual violence. There is growing evidence of the impact that alcohol consumption has on sexual consent. However, there has been no review examining sexual consent in the context of other drug-taking. Published literature was sought using searches of: PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL, MEDLINE and Open Dissertations. Unpublished literature, such as unpublished government or charity reports, were identified through Google search engine. All 21 eligible studies employed qualitative or mixed methods; therefore, a thematic synthesis was deemed an appropriate method of analysis. Three themes were constructed: "Drug-taking changes sexual norms", "Drug-taking diminishes the capacity to make sexual decisions" and "Drug-taking reduces verbal and non-verbal ability to communicate consent". The findings demonstrated that prevailing models of sexual consent may not account for circumstances relevant to drug-involved sex, such as how drug-taking impacts freedom and capacity to consent to sex. We propose the use of the medical model of capacity to consent as a broader framework through which capacity to consent to sex in drug-taking contexts can be assessed. The importance of both the social and situational context for sexual decision-making following drug-taking is discussed.

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“…A comparative analysis of the media coverage of #MeToo in Denmark and Sweden concluded that in both countries sexual assault was predominantly portrayed as a personal rather than a societal problem (Askanius & Møller Hartley, 2019). It also seemed that the media primarily represented #MeToo as a markedly White phenomenon (Onwuachi-Willig, 2018;Tambe, 2018), and also that they focused more on the campaign as such than on the possible solutions to the problems that the movement exposed. A study of UK newspaper coverage of the #MeToo movement showed that the fail to discuss effects and solutions may in fact have defused the movement's potential as a mobilizing social force (De Benedictis et al, 2019).…”

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The #MeToo Movement: Men and Masculinity in Swedish News Media

Nilsson

Lundgren

2020

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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This article analyses the coverage of the #MeToo movement in Swedish news media. The aim of the study was to explore how men and masculinity were represented. The results showed that masculinity was associated with violence, harassment, and a culture of abuse, as well as with progressive ideas of a “new man” that is both strong and gentle at the same time. The article discusses how the represented masculinities might be problematic in relation to the #MeToo movement’s ambition to reform a sexist society because of the stereotypical and gender-dualistic tendencies that permeate the material and the tendencies to individualize the represented assaults and perpetrators.

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Reckoning with the Silences of #MeToo

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Whiteness in and through data protection: an intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots

Whiteness in and through data protection: an intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots

Making and Communicating Decisions About Sexual Consent During Drug-Involved Sex: A Thematic Synthesis

The #MeToo Movement: Men and Masculinity in Swedish News Media

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