Brooke Foucault Welles, Moya Bailey, Sarah J. Jackson - #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice Author: Brooke Foucault Welles, Moya Bailey, Sarah J. Jackson Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: November 17, 2020 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when #IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians protesting a disputed election and offered a global audience a front-row seat to a nascent revolution. Since then, activists have used a variety of hashtags to advocate, mobilize, and communicate. In this book, Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles explore how and why Twitter has become an important platform for historically disenfranchised populations, including Black Americans, women, and transgender people. The authors describe how such hashtags as #MeToo, #SurvivorPrivilege, and #WhyIStayed have challenged the conventional understanding of gendered violence; examine the voices and narratives of Black feminism enabled by #FastTailedGirls, #YouOKSis, and #SayHerName; and explore the creation and use of #GirlsLikeUs, a network of transgender women. They investigate the digital signatures of the 'new civil rights movement'—the online activism, storytelling, and strategy-building that set the stage for #BlackLivesMatter—and recount the spread of racial justice hashtags after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and other high-profile incidents of killings by police. Finally, they consider hashtags created by allies, including #AllMenCan and #CrimingWhileWhite.