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#FemFuture: Online Revolution

Written by Courtney E. Martin & Vanessa Valenti

Inographics designed by Megan Jett

Published by the Barnard Center or Research on Women

BCRW grateully acknowledges support or this report rom:

The Jacqueline & Gregory Zehner Foundation

The Harnisch Foundation

The George Family Foundation

Trio Foundation

The Woodcock Foundation

Abigail E. DisneyBarbara Dobkin

Louise Forrest

Dolly Gray-Bussard

Helen Kornblum

Ann W. Lovell

Lori Ordover

In BCRWs 2007 webjournal The Scholar and Feminist Online issue on Blo

Feminism: Websites o Resistance, Rebecca Traister wrote o her introductio

the online eminist community,

Online, I found women (and men) who thought about feminism as

much as I did, and who knew far more than I about its history, its legal

applications, and its cultural implications. They spoke of gender, sexuality

race, age, womens health, reproductive rights, international human rights

abuses, disabilities, physical and cultural difference, women in media,

politics, and business. Their voices were, by turns, earnest and funny

and academic and casual. They came from parts of the country Id never

visited, connected me to women Id never have encountered otherwise.

In the past decade, this rerain has increasingly been soundedthe Internet

has transormed not just the lives o individual eminist activists, but o activist

movements as a whole.

But in the spring o 2012, Courtney Martin and Vanessa Valenti approached

BCRW with a message: this new and exciting environment was in crisis. As

eminist writers ocused on online spaces they were increasingly alarmed by

the severity o burnout they saw among their ellow eminist bloggers and onli

VOLUME 8

#FEMFUTURE: ONLINE REVOLUTION

OTHER VOLUMES

IN THE SERIES

VOLUME 1

Responding to Violence, Rethinking Security:

Policy Alternatives for Building Human

Security

VOLUME 2

Women, Work, and the Academy: Strategies

for Responding to Post-Civil Rights Era

Gender Discrimination

VOLUME 3

The Work-Family Dilemma: A Better Balance

VOLUME 4

Toward a Vision of Sexual and Economic

Justice

VOLUME 5

Valuing Domestic Work

VOLUME 6

Reproductive Justice in Action

VOLUME 7

Desiring Change

To download any report in the New Feminist

Solutions series, visit bcrw.barnard.edu/ns or call

212.854.2067 to request a ree printed copy.


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activists. They wanted to make sure the landscape that

had given them so much would still be around a generationlater. Martin and Valenti had a compelling vision to make the

landscape o eminist writers and activists online stronger;

to create a sustainable orce that would build on existing

alliances among eminist movements and between online

eminists and their institutional counterparts; and to develop

an inrastructure o support or these important voices.

BCRW signed on to support a convening o 21 local online

activists and writers who brainstormed ideas about how they

could work more eectively and sustainably and what th

wanted the uture to look like.This report provides a synthesis o those conversation

supported with examples and recommendations rom M

and Valentis ongoing research. BCRW is excited to rele

this report as a compilation o a ew o the conversations

happening worldwide, on and oine, about movement t

and impact in the digital age. We look orward to contin

engagement in the years ahead.

Shelby Knox

Change.org

Jensine Larsen

World Pulse

Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Feministing

Katie OrensteinThe Op-Ed Project

Miriam Zoila Prez

Radical Doula

Andrea Plaid

Racialicious

Online Revolution Convening 2012 Participants

Lori Adelman

Feministing

Brittney Cooper

Crunk Feminist Collective

Dana Edell

SPARK Movement

Jill FilipovicFeministe

Victoria Fitzgerald

Hollaback!

Emily Jacobi

Digital Democracy

Ileana Jimnez

Feminist Teacher

Jennier Pozner

Women In Media & News

Marianne Schnall

Feminist.com

Dena Simmons

Feminist Educator & activist

Jamia WilsonFeminist media activist

Irene Xanthoudakis

Feminist activist & fundraiser

Julie Zeilinger

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some situations that I know I would have neve

gotten rom anyone or anything else in my lie.

have given me hope that it might get better, an

just wanted to let you know.

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Dont stop writing them down.

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distortion in the smoothly packaged ideas being

sold to us. Pop culture is about selling liestyles,

selling ideas; it normalizes cer tain elements o

our culture and erases others. Why do so many

people have the idea that we are all vaguely

middle class? Because thats whats represented

in our media environment.

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youre the one speaking or them? Because that is

one o the biggest lessons we here at Feministing hav
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An ununded movement urther privilegthe privileged.Youre not just doing intellectual labor. Youre also do

emotional labor when you come out with thesevulneposts about how we like the world to look. As women

color specically, a lot o that gets internalized and it

other kinds o issues. Health challenges. Internalized

Not being validated.

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voices. Women o color and other groups are alrea

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and ewer voices will get promoted.
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Anti-feminists will leverage the Internet.Misogyny, both blatant and covert, is rampant

online. Online harassment and threats are a

daily experience or online activists, and young

women and girls are increasingly bombarded with

vitriolic and harmul messaging on the very same

orums we use or activism. Radically anti-eminist

commentator Ann Coulter has over 300,000

ollowers on Twitter our times the number o

ollowers as Planned Parenthood. Pinterestthe

social networking site o 17 million visits per

day9has become immersed in diet tips and images

o Victoria Secret models10. Anti-eminist video

bloggers outnumber eminists in search results or

eminist on YouTube. Not only is it up to us to

build our inuence and challenge the sexism and

bigotry that exists online, but also to continue to

provide sae spaces or young people to engage with

one another in healthy and empowering ways.

Well repeat the same mistakes.I the gender identities were dierent, it would be a

dierent conversation. How do we combat all o the things

in our socialization that teach us that we dont deserve

sustainability? We have to embrace the entitlement o

saying -- No, I deserve these things, and I need them and

Im not going to wait or someone to hand them to me.

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less about Digital Democracy and more about the world

that I want to live inI think, open and honest dialogue

and conversations. O course, we need undingbut that

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decides. And coming rom a place o wealth and pr ivilege

PART II I: RECOMMENDATIONS

OUR HIGHER IMPACT FUTURE

decides, versus an honest conversation about where m

really should go and how it should be used.

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coalition build, they look like theyre collaborating, b

theyre actually consolidating power and money. Its

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revolution.

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dont do coalition building or real partnership work. We need

to gure out ways to get more strategic in working together

without compromising our undamental intersectional

politics.

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