How marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives,
preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent. 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, including #JusticeForTrayvon, #BlackLivesMatter,
#YesAllWomen, and #MeToo 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. They show how
marginalized groups, long excluded from elite media spaces, have
used Twitter hashtags to advance counternarratives, preempt
political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent. 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 hashtag
created by allies, including #AllMenCan and #CrimingWhileWhite.
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