Transnational Feminist Advocacy Online: Identity (Re)Creation Through Diversity, Transparency, and Co-Construction

Reflections on Feminist Organizational Communication

“…The nearly three decades since “Gaining a Voice” was published have seen new insights and shifts from margins to center that have changed organizational communication. Organizational communication scholars critique whiteness, Western-centrism, heteronormativity, feminisms, and other considerations (e.g., Cruz, 2015; Cruz & Sodeke, 2020) from dilemmic, tensional, and paradoxical approaches to materialities and discourses (e.g., D’Enbeau, 2017; Harris, 2015; Putnam & Ashcraft, 2017) to transnational feminist advocacy online (e.g., D’Enbeau, 2011; Linabary, 2017). Scholarship appears as diverse representations of experiences (e.g., poetry, code-switching passages, autoethnographies, performances, photovoice; Cruz et al, 2020; Dar, 2019; Gist-Mackey & Kingsford, 2020).…”

At the Heart of Feminist Transnational Organizing: Exploring Postcolonial Reflexivity in Organizational Practice at World Pulse

“…TFNs either explicitly or implicitly share many characteristics associated with other feminist organizations, but have a few unique attributes (D'Enbeau, 2011). First, TFNs are organized around a shared set of issues and interests rather than nationalities (D'Enbeau, 2011;Moghadam, 2005).…”

“…TFNs either explicitly or implicitly share many characteristics associated with other feminist organizations, but have a few unique attributes (D'Enbeau, 2011). First, TFNs are organized around a shared set of issues and interests rather than nationalities (D'Enbeau, 2011;Moghadam, 2005). These networks, which bring women from three or more countries together, typically employ lobbying, advocacy, and direct action to achieve their goals as well as to further information exchange and encourage solidarity among members (Dempsey et al, 2007;Moghadam, 2005).…”

“…These networks, which bring women from three or more countries together, typically employ lobbying, advocacy, and direct action to achieve their goals as well as to further information exchange and encourage solidarity among members (Dempsey et al, 2007;Moghadam, 2005). Secondly, TFNs are facilitated by and often dependent on new communication technologies that allow for connections across borders as well as access to global audiences at reduced costs (D'Enbeau, 2011;Diani, 2000;Moghadam, 2005).…”

“…Organizing tensions reflect the ways "reoccurring tensions arise from, and are enacted through, organizing practices" and the ways in which organizational members attempt to actively organize, or manage, such tensions as part of their everyday organizational experience (Dempsey et al, 2007, p. 24). Previously identified tensions related to feminist organizations, such as TFNs, include a desire to be transparent about their identities and agendas while staying accountable to various stakeholders, a struggle to balance solidarity and diversity both internally and externally, and a push for both decentralization and professionalization (Dempsey et al, 2007(Dempsey et al, , 2011D'Enbeau, 2011).…”