Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies explores how digital feminists use the long-standing tactics of storytelling to counter the dominant narratives of white supremacy, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and the intersecting oppressions that accompany such structures, both online and offline.

Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies foregrounds the importance of storytelling for coalition building, solidarity, and performative assembly. Bringing together scholars and activists from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, this book offers creative explorations, analyses, personal stories, and case studies of digital feminist activism that speak directly to the many ways that feminist communities assemble for the purposes of protest and resistance. Through various forms of feminist media mobilizations, from hashtag feminism and platform activism to personal blogs and meme accounts, these chapters explore how digital feminists use the long-standing tactics of storytelling to counter the dominant narratives of white supremacy, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and the intersecting oppressions that accompany such structures, both online and offline. By sharing stories of intersectional feminist assembly for collective justice, this book contributes to larger conversations about establishing alternative ways of seeing and being in the world, inviting others to assemble with us.

Chapter 1: Tactics of Feminist Disappropriation and Cultural Directions in Our Global Digital Era: A Case for #NiUnaMenos in Times of #MeToo

Francesca Dennstedt

Chapter 2: Storying Blackfoot Resilience in the Digital Age

Gabrielle E. Lindstrom, Sierra Shade, and Sofia Baptiste

Chapter 3: #SayHerNameNigeria: Nigerian Feminists Resist Police Sexual Violence on Women's Bodies

Ololade Faniyi, Angel Nduka-Nwosu, and Radhika Gajjala

Chapter 4: Interfering with State Surveillance and Data Collection: Hacking the Affordance of “Identifiability” as Resistance on Social Media

Mina Momeni

Chapter 5: Can Butches be Feminists? Unearthing the Complexities within Butch and Butch/Femme Facebook Groups

Kristin Comeforo

Chapter 6: “Please send a video of yourself breaking shit”: The Digital Assembly Video and Networked Feminist Solidarities

Julie Ravary-Pilon

Chapter 7: One Taught Me Action: The Digital Meta-Lives and Affective Resonances of Pop Protest Signs

Morgan Bimm

Chapter 8: Meme Feminisms: Tactical Irony on Social Media

Keren Zaiontz and Kristen Cochrane

Chapter 9: Queering Digital Activisms: The Collective Rhetoric of Edit-a-Thons

Micki Burdick

Chapter 10: Pushing Back: How Blogs and Podcasts are Empowering Birthing Bodies Online

Shaylynn Lynch Lesinski, Tammy Rae Matthews, and Kelly J. Drumright

Chapter 11: Feminism and Networked Individual Activism: The Case of Susan Fowler

Minna Aslama Horowitz and Neil Feinstein

Chapter 12: “I want us to own the goddamned servers”: The Feminist Principles of Archive of Our Own

Sid Heeg