Article: Living whose best life? An intersectional feminist interrogation of postfeminist #solidarity in #selfcare
dc.creator | Wiens, Brianna | |
dc.creator | MacDonald, Shana | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-16T08:59:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-16T08:59:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-06-05 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article argues that one of the many ways that white supremacy functions within digital culture is to obscure the realities of social inequity via neoliberal dictums for self-improvement and individ-ualist calls to live our ‘best lives’. For decades Black feminists have been advocating for self-care as preservation and community building. This article highlights the need for self-care to return to its roots in Black feminism and to distinguish itself from popular feminist enactments of self-care. To do so, we critically analyse ex-amples of postfeminist enactments of #selfcare on Instagram to highlight how they exacerbate societal inequities. We first explore the relationship between #selfcare and Instagram itself, outlining the effects of Instagram’s affordances on its users to demonstrate how both users and the platform shape each other. Next, we inter-rogate #selfcare as a space of #solidarity, arguing that current itera-tions privilege white upper-class frameworks that benefit from various oppressions. Last, we closely analyse The Nap Ministry, an Instagram account that highlights Black feminist self-care princi-ples that intervene into prevailing white frameworks and, in doing so, co-opts the platform affordances of Instagram to model forms of action and offer frameworks we need for the present. In sum, this article suggests that genuine #solidarity through #selfcare must decenter whiteness and take up a more intersectional feminist lens. | en |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16254 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/17107 | |
dc.language | eng | |
dc.publisher | NECS | |
dc.publisher.place | ||
dc.relation.isPartOf | issn:2213-0217 | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies | |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 | |
dc.subject | Digitale Kultur | de |
dc.subject | Feminismus | de |
dc.subject | Hashtag | de |
dc.subject | Netz-Aktivismus | de |
dc.subject | Soziale Medien | de |
dc.subject | digital culture | en |
dc.subject | feminism | en |
dc.subject | activism | en |
dc.subject | social media | en |
dc.subject.ddc | ddc:791 | |
dc.title | Living whose best life? An intersectional feminist interrogation of postfeminist #solidarity in #selfcare | en |
dc.type | article | |
dc.type.status | publishedVersion | |
dspace.entity.type | Article | en |
local.coverpage | 2021-07-16T11:22:08 | |
local.identifier.firstpublished | https://necsus-ejms.org/living-whose-best-life-an-intersectional-feminist-interrogation-of-postfeminist-solidarity-in-selfcare/ | |
local.source.epage | 242 | |
local.source.issue | 1 | |
local.source.issueTitle | #Solidarity | |
local.source.spage | 219 | |
local.source.volume | 10 |
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