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- Convenor:
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Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo
(University of Maastricht)
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- Chair:
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Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo
(University of Maastricht)
- Discussants:
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Jörg F.W. Bürgi
(ACA AgroCity Association)
Amock Alikuleti (European Law and Governance School)
Kebene Wodajo (ETH Zurich)
- Format:
- Panel
- Stream:
- Linguistic and visual (de)colonialisms
- Location:
- Room 1015
- Sessions:
- Friday 10 June, -
Time zone: Europe/Berlin
Short Abstract:
In moving their discriminating experiences to online spaces, Black women digitalised intersectionality, resistance and empowerment, birthing Black cyberfeminism & highlighting misogynoir manifestations in hashtags like #SayHerName, #FastTailedGirls, #NotYourMami, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, & #MMIW
Long Abstract:
With the expansion of digital space, Black women's historical legacy of activism found itself catapulted into are a digital Jim Crow, a new incarnation of the same oppression techniques that have afflicted black communities throughout history. Through their visual, textual, and oral narratives, Black women's digital praxis is influenced by the radical legacy of Anna Julia Cooper, Sojourner Truth, and other women. Due to the twin kinds of exclusion and oppression that Black women face regularly, Anna Cooper creates a unique concept of social justice tenfold more valid for Black women than anyone else. The panel aims to demonstrate how Black women activism used digital technology as a catalyst for feminist concerns making Black women pioneers of virtual feminisms and Black feminist philosophy which gave birth to Black cyberfeminism. By translating and representing their physical realities into digital experiences Black women increased the perspective of intersectional awareness and demonstrating degrees of ongoing resistance and empowerment. Individual and collective manifestations of misogynoir were highlighted in form of social media hashtags like #SayHerName, #FastTailedGirls, #NotYourAsianSidekick, #NotYourMami, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and #MMIW.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Friday 10 June, 2022, -Amock Alikuleti (European Law and Governance School)
Paper short abstract:
This study examines the potentiality of ecofeminism in cyberspace in realizing a global public sphere and polity, and integrating non-represented or underrepresented worldviews in sustainability governance while mitigating traditional power imbalances rooted in hierarchy and value dualism.
Paper long abstract:
Women, minorities (particularly indigenous), and Nature have spatially and temporally borne the brunt of domination systems – epitomized by neoliberalism's exclusionary modus operandi – which underlies contemporary society's biggest existential threat: climate change. Contextualized by the socio-ecological polycrisis, this study proposes and examines, through an ontological and critical theory lens, the potentiality of ecofeminism in cyberspace and digital networks in realizing a global public sphere and polity empowered with a deeper socio-ecological relational consciousness and the capacity to integrate non-represented or underrepresented worldviews in sustainability governance while mitigating traditional power imbalances rooted in hierarchy and value dualism. In this regard, the study highlights the African ethical epistemology and ontology of Ubuntu in challenging the mechanistic mindset and the logic of domination and hierarchical valuation of Eurocentric cosmopolitanism that have traditionally governed relations between North and South, genders, peoples, and humanity and Nature.
Felix Oyosoro (Veritas University, Abuja)
Paper short abstract:
This study demonstrates the Feminist Coalitions’ (FemCo) usage of digital technology as a catalyst for feminist concerns within the #EndSARS protest. The FemCo expanded intersectional awareness by reflecting their physical reality into digital experiences through the creation of the #EndSARS logo.
Paper long abstract:
The purpose of this study is to show how the Feminist Coalition (FemCo) used digital technology as a catalyst for feminist concerns, resulting in Black women becoming pioneers of virtual feminisms and Black feminist philosophy, giving birth to Black cyberfeminism during and after the #EndSARS protest. The FemCo expanded intersectional awareness and demonstrated degrees of continued resistance and empowerment by translating and reflecting their physical reality into digital experiences through the creation of the #EndSARS logo. Individual and communal forms of misogynoir were highlighted through the use of hashtags on social media. We used both primary and secondary data sources to conclude that existing literature on #EndSARS protest rarely mentions FemCo's enormous impact. We contend that the #EndSARS protest would not have had much of an impact on a global scale if the FemCo had not been involved actively and more importantly, financially. We also show that, thanks to the various actions of the coalition's thirteen founding members, black cyberfeminism in modern Nigeria has ushered in a new age for the emancipation of gendered discourse in a patriarchal culture. These topics are examined in three parts in our paper: First, we look at the evolution of feminist theory to highlight its Cyberfeminist and Black Cyberfeminist corollaries; then, we analyze the events of the #EndSARS protest and introduce the FemCo; and finally, we look at the FemCo's black Cyberfeminist characteristics and the current state of feminism in Nigeria.
Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo (University of Maastricht)
Paper short abstract:
In moving their discriminating experiences to online spaces, Black women digitalised intersectionality, resistance and empowerment, birthing Black cyberfeminism & highlighting misogynoir manifestations in hashtags like #SayHerName, #FastTailedGirls, #NotYourMami, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, & #MMIW
Paper long abstract:
With the expansion of digital space, Black women's historical legacy of activism found itself catapulted into are a digital Jim Crow, a new incarnation of the same oppression techniques that have afflicted black communities throughout history. Through their visual, textual, and oral narratives, Black women's digital praxis is influenced by the radical legacy of Anna Julia Cooper, Sojourner Truth, and other women. Due to the twin kinds of exclusion and oppression that Black women face regularly, Anna Cooper creates a unique concept of social justice tenfold more valid for Black women than anyone else. The panel aims to demonstrate how Black women's activism used digital technology as a catalyst for feminist concerns making Black women pioneers of virtual feminisms and Black feminist philosophy which gave birth to Black cyberfeminism. By translating and representing their physical realities into digital experiences Black women increased the perspective of intersectional awareness and demonstrated degrees of ongoing resistance and empowerment. Individual and collective manifestations of misogynoir were highlighted in form of social media hashtags like #SayHerName, #FastTailedGirls, #NotYourAsianSidekick, #NotYourMami, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and #MMIW.