S&F: Digital Engagemet Panel
This Saturday at the annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, Locations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices, speakers will discuss the ways feminist activists, writers, and thinkers around the world engage with issues of globalization, nationalism, gender, sexuality, identity, and power. One prominent type of engagement is through online communities. For the lunchtime Digital Engagement session, we will be asking participants to share with us their experiences, suggestions, and challenges around engaging with these communities.In preparation for the conversation we’d like to have around this issue, we’ll highlight some of the work being done by our conference speakers, including Tamura Lomax from The Feminist Wire, Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh from Zanan TV, photographer and activist Zanele Muholi, Maria-Belen Ordonez from FemTechNet, and Laura Hale from the WikiWomen’s Collaborative.
The Feminist Wire (TFW) seeks to critique “anti-feminist, racist, and imperialist politics pervasive in all forms and spaces of private and public lives of individuals globally,” especially those that perpetuate structural violence. TFW creates an alternative blogging space online for intersectional and international perspectives on politics, culture, sports, religion, health, and many other interconnected topics. They have a diverse group of managing, associate, and contributing editors, and accept submissions from the public. TFW also uses social media to circulate their articles and call for submissions, which increases their audience and contributor pool and may help reach those outside of purely academic or activist circles. The Feminist Wire is published completely in English and is U.S.-based which may create challenges for organizing transnationally, but these challenges no doubt inspire creative solutions. Some of their pieces in transnational feminism include celebrating the work of feminists such as Farah Tanis and Chandra Mohanty, and discussing the geopolitics of Beyoncé’s Black feminism. Tamura Lomax is the co-founder of The Feminist Wire as well as a professor and author.
In a metaphorically apt turn of events, Zanan TV was launched at Zuccotti Park in the space created by Occupy Wall Street, with the intention of creating a similar alternative space online, one that would be, as Director Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh put it, “the vanguard of the women’s movement in Iran.” It is part of a history of online spaces created by the Iranian women’s movement, and seeks to provide an online space for feminist discourse and alliance formation between activists organizing around seemingly different goals. Zanan TV accomplishes these objectives through the use of video journalism with on-air and on-demand programs including documentaries, analysis, and news coverage. Zanan TV journalists are activists in various social movements, including the women’s movement. They offer websites in both English and Farsi, and have covered topics such as grassroots activism in Nepal, Iranian female musicians, and women in film internationally.
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