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.