toxic wocs: constructing race and gender in digital spaces
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Toxic WOCs:Constructing Race
and Gender in Digital Spaces
Roopika RisamSalem State University
@roopikarisam
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#WOCHashtagsRising
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#TheNumbers
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#TheNumbers
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#FemFuture
“Women of color and other groups are already overlooked for adequate media attention and already struggle disproportionately in this culture of scarcity.”
–Courtney Martin and Vanessa Valenti
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#FemFuture
“An unfunded online feminist movement isn’t merely a threat to the livelihood of these hard-working activists, but a threat to the larger feminist movement itself”
–Courtney Martin and Vanessa Valenti
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#Reactions
“Where is the space in all of these #femfuture movements for people who don’t have internet access?”
-Mikki Kendall
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#FeministBlogospheres
“Freed from the boundaries of print, writers could blur the lines between formal and casual writing; between a call to arms, a confession, and a stand-up routine—and this new looseness of form in turn emboldened readers to join in, to take risks in the safety of the shared spotlight.”
-Emily Nussbaum
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#FeministLandmines
“Many of the most avid digital feminists will tell you that it’s become toxic. Indeed, there’s a nascent genre of essays by people who feel emotionally savaged by their involvement in it—not because of sexist trolls, but because of the slashing righteousness of other feminists.”
-Michelle Goldberg
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#SpatialWebs
“The Internet is the modern-day agora. It is increasingly a place where so many people are coming together and doing very meaningful, very real things, so that the social patterns prevailing on the Internet are of interest to everybody.”
-Katherine Cross
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#WhoTweets
# Total registered users: ~1 billion
# Unique monthly visitors to Twitter.com: 36 million
# Country with Most Users: U.S.
# Percentage of Twitter MAUs located outside U.S.: 77%
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#WherePeopleTweet
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#TweetsPerCapita
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#USTweeters
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#Implications
# U.S. media muckracking
# Replication and amplification of race and gender on Twitter
# Viral movement of toxicity discourses
# U.S. and U.S. feminist co-optation of Twitter