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Women's rights activists use social media to get their message out

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Women's rights activists use social media to get their message out

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Online article of just how Women rights activists and women in general use social media to get their message out to further fight for the rights they deserve just like any human.

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Hashtag activism has helped to propel women's rights to the forefront of political agendas, bringing attention to issues often under-reported by mainstream media, panellists have told an event at the UN in New York.

Social media has helped women to share experiences of sexual violence, such as on the HarassMap platform, launched in Egypt, and has kept international attention focused on events that have slipped off the news agenda, such as the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, launched in 2014 after the abduction of more than 300 schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria. The hashtag has punctuated more than 4.5m tweets globally.

But speakers at the event, held during the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and organised by the OECD Development Centre and UN Women, conceded that the extent to which online engagement translates into policy change or practical action remains unclear.

Mollie Vandor, a product manager at Twitter, said conversations about feminism on Twitter had increased by 300% over the past three years. A performance by the singer Beyoncé in front of the word "feminist" underpinned a 64% increase in tweets containing that word. Patricia Arquette's Oscar speech this year, in which she referenced pay inequalities, resulted in 320,000 tweets about #equalpay in two hours.

"I definitely feel like there's a moment happening right now, where we're reaching a tipping point," Vandor said. "It's easy to dismiss these social media moments as just 'talk', but I really believe that the more we talk about what gender equality means and why it's important, the more that conversation picks up volume and the harder it is to ignore."

Keshet Bachan, a gender equality activist and girls' rights expert at Plan International, added that social media had opened up space for young feminists and activists to air their views "where once only the 'specialist' was allowed to speak".

"The exchange of views, the proliferation of opinions, and what I believe to be the consciousness raising process that takes place any time there is a feminist debate online is invaluable to the women's movements," she said.

However, a paper published by the OECD Development Centre this month found that the extent to which social media had helped lever women's voices into decision-making processes had been patchy and unpredictable, which, it noted, reflected the struggle that grassroots activists experience when trying to get their concerns heard in public life.

Despite success in increasing the number of female MPs globally, women still occupy less than a quarter of parliamentary seats.

Limited access to technology and language barriers mean many women are still unable to make use of social media, according to the OECD research. Some blogs and websites written by women have been censored by governments, and sexual harassment of activists in online discussions has also been witnessed.

"There are some challenges, such as women's access to the technology, their training to use it adequately, or the need for a strong women's movement to link with on-the-ground efforts," said Estelle Loiseau, gender progamme officer at the OECD Development Centre. "But we have to acknowledge that women's voices are more visible than ever thanks to social media. There is a proliferation of blogs and online collaborative platforms that have arisen as another way to organise for gender activists," she added.

Online platforms were absent 20 years ago when leaders at the fourth world conference on women held in Beijing agreed to increase women's representation in decision-making at all levels, and their access to the media and new technologies. The Beijing outcome document also called for steps to be taken to promote a balanced portrayal of women in the media.

Women's voices are more visible than ever thanks to social media

Estelle Loiseau

The OECD launched its own Wikigender online platform seven years ago to encourage debate on gender equality and women's rights. It now attracts an average of 40,000 unique monthly users. A French version of the site is due to launch later this year.

The OECD research paper recommended that, as well as increasing women's access to technology, women's rights activists could benefit from training in ways to maximise the use of social media for campaigning. It said increasing the number of female leaders in the media could also help the success of online advocacy, and that social media campaigns needed to build on and collaborate with local women's movements.

Bachan said Plan's activities on social media had been complemented with offline advocacy "ensuring girls meet and talk directly with their own governments" and capturing the moment on video or in a photo to hold decision-makers to account for their promises. "Our focus on including girls in the post-2015 agenda has translated into real accomplishments in terms of policy outcomes, and it has, I believe, also fostered a new generation of girl-advocates and empowered citizens," she said.

This year's fortnight-long CSW is examining progress against the Beijing agreement.

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Women's rights activists use social media to get their message out

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How Digital Activism Empowers Women to Organize 

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Digital Activism is a huge plus for women in helping them to further gain power in fighting for their rights.

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With my newborn strapped to my chest, I walked past the high-end shops of Newbury Street to Boston Common. Summoned by the power of digital communication, myself, my newborn and 175,000 protesters marched to the oldest city park in the country to protest hate. On January 21, 2017, nearly 3 million people took to the streets of American cities with others around the world to protest the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States. The Women's March on Washington and sister city marches mobilized generations of caring people from every background to exercise their civic right to assemble.

Later that evening, Boston Parks and Recreation and the Boston Police Department used their official Facebook pages to thank the protesters. The cops noted: ". . .the men and women of the Boston Police Department would like to thank you for the high levels of respectful and responsible behavior on display throughout the day." Though marchers and police met earlier in the day on the streets, they met again through the Internet later that evening via emails and more messages of thanks.

Setting aside some post-march commentary on whether or not the reason for these cordial encounters was a result of a largely white crowd, we can all agree that Massachusetts is a liberal bubble and that this was proof that activism has gone mainstream. It also shows the extent to which methods of speaking truth to power (or of "power" speaking to the people in this instance) are evolving thanks to digital media.

"I never met a single person in my committee till the day of the march."

After November 6, Facebook began to light up with calls to rally. Just like Donald Trump using the internet to fan the flames of ignorance, his opposition rose up immediately using digital tools to organize in their defense. Freelance marketing and communications consultant Mary Badger was one of the main organizers for the March on Boston. After the election, she was "horrified" by the state of affairs. "I started talking to friends, [asking] 'What are we going to do?'" When she heard about the Women's March on Washington, she decided to get tickets to go, but within minutes, she saw on Facebook that people were organizing a Boston march. Just after that, someone contacted her to help organize it. "It blossomed to a group of 50 of us," she says. They first met in person. "There were 17-year-olds and 70-year-olds, people from every demographic,"she recalls. Next they divided into committees that would handle the different aspects of the march. Badger headed up marketing and communications. But instead of meeting in person again, they met weekly online.

"I never met a single person in my committee till the day of the march," she says. A variety of digital tools were used. They had a Google Doc with a plan for each week; people took on tasks as they came up. After the first week of creation, they blew past their expected numbers for the march. "Our first goal was 7,500 people and close to 200,000 came out. The first permit was for 400 people! We had no idea what we were getting into."

Her committee mostly ended up emailing to plan, though each committee had its own way of communicating. Weekly conference calls helped organizers with less experience interact with those with more.

"Our first goal was 7,500 people and close to 200,000 came out. The first permit was for 400 people! We had no idea what we were getting into."

She explained that the sister marches and their efforts are separate from the main Women's March on Washington. Though I was participating in a sister march, much of my family was at the national march in Washington, D.C. Three generations-my parents, my brother, my niece, our cousins and their kids-were witness to one of the largest protests of our time. My parents flew up from their Miami home. "My friends called me and said they heard a march was being planned. I began my own Internet search and went on to register for the march," my mother, a former teacher and counselor of the deaf and sometimes activist, Mary Ellen Tracy relays of her experience getting involved. "The march was extremely inspirational. As soon as we got on the train to go downtown, we started feeling patriotic. The sea of pussy hats on the train gave us a sense of empowerment, that all of these women, men, and children came together for a real 'happening'. At the Mall, we felt like we were part of history." The national march drew crowds thanks to both word of mouth, media coverage, and the wise use of Internet tools.

Many of the sister marches, about 45 of them, coordinated on Slack and through a Twitter channel crafting hashtags to "amplify the message." Though the Boston march has a website, not all sister marches do. And as Badger explained, these marches do not all fall under one umbrella. There is some interaction between national and sister marches, but the national movement has an agenda to which not all the sister marches adhere. "But that difference is healthy," Badger says, there's some variety. It supports "the idea of being able to put up all kinds of issues you're related to and all people will support you, even if it's not their issue."

The Boston march and others used Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, and, most important, a Facebook event page. Badger explains that the event tool is "terrible" after 1,000 people RSVP. You can't edit the event after that point and only three people can manage it. One of those three hosts had a death in the family and had to leave the country, so the hundreds of questions posted to the page were answered only by the remaining two.

"It became really clear to us at the beginning of the project that answering questions was hugely important on social media. People didn't know who we were or if it was going to happen." But on Facebook, people were volunteering to answer these questions as well. And through this manner, they found a "wonderful person," Shelly Yen, who helped make the Boston march more accessible to the differently abled.

Once their movement got to a certain size, she explains, they could reach out to reporters and state representatives and get them on their side. "The bigger we got, the easier all our communication tasks became. People would share, and that's how it came about. You see them share posts with their friends. I think that's how we grew so fast."

They were also asking the public through the Eventbrite page for donations, and it was very effective. From this, they gathered a substantial email list and enough money to create green, union-made T-shirts.

Both the national and sister marches continue to take action in many ways. The March on Washington launched 10 actions in 100 days. One of those actions is to organize a "huddle." After the Women's March on Washington, my mother is one example of someone who went on to participate in other virtual activism and actual events, like hosting a huddle herself. The huddle is, she explains, "a grassroots effort to keep women talking about the best websites to visit, committing to send emails to congress, and writing postcards of suggestions to the president and of thanks to people like Sen. John Lewis. . . . And then, of course, we ate," she adds.

From here on out, the internet is how "we the people" will organize to rise up and meet the Man.

On International Women's Day, March 8, the national group launched 'A Day Without a Woman', in which women went on strike and the world experienced what it's like when females fight back and hit them where it hurts-their wallets.

The Boston March was still planning next steps at the time we spoke. Badger said they had a lot of ideas, "and they're really exciting. We've leveraged this gigantic network completely informally to bring a [protesting] presence from airports to Copley Square. . . .

There are all kinds of actions that people are jumping up to support."

Before and after the marches, many of us found ourselves interacting with policy makers and discussing civics with our friends and foes in new ways. At the marches, we shared images and thoughts on social media. We clicked through photos of thoughtful signs and seas of pink hats. One friend who couldn't make it to a march began sharing other friends' pictures from around the world on her Instagram to draw attention. But in order to continue on in this active vein, we (the people) began reading and sharing articles on social media; passing around petitions online. Organizations like the Sierra Club or Laura Moser, the woman who manages activist text blasts 'Daily Action', send texts to hundreds of thousands of people with scripts and link them directly to the lines of congresspeople and other governmental agencies. When White House comment lines were shut down, a company, Revolution Messaging, created the website White House Inc. that diverted calls to Trump's businesses around the world so that he would have to hear what they have to say.

Oddly enough, all this digital work behind the scenes is getting people to physically do something to enact policy changes. With congressional and White House phone lines being cut off or remaining busy (off the hook?) and ignored tweets galore, gathering IRL has caught on too, like in the case of the huddles. People are finally making phone calls and speaking to peons at congressional offices to relay their messages of frustration, fear and hope. Activists are posting their events online to the Resistance Calendar to gather forces and humans are actually getting up and going to town hall meetings to tell their representatives that they need to listen to our voices.

One family friend that doesn't use Facebook was dismayed because she couldn't find out more about the movement offline. But others who weren't as Internet savvy are now using digital tools to come together and continue to gain strength in solidarity of our rights.

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With my newborn strapped to my chest, I walked past the high-end shops of Newbury Street to Boston Common. Summoned by the power of digital communication, myself, my newborn and 175,000 protesters marched to the oldest city park in the country to protest hate.

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One morning I woke up to find something awful sitting in my email inbox. Something that made me physically ill and unable to get out of bed for hours. The subject was "Open for a surprise" and somehow it slipped past my spam filter and burned into my mind forever.

As someone who's accomplished quite a bit for a woman of my age, people look up to me. I'm the founder of Femsplain.com, a community where anyone who identifies as a woman, non-binary, and other gender nonconforming people can share personal stories. You may have even seen a few of our articles here on . They're relatable, inspiring, and most importantly they are what we need on the internet today.

What I want to talk about is the stuff you can't see from the outside when you're someone who gets a lot of attention online: the ugly private messages, emails, the threatening phone calls, and all the stress and energy that goes into protecting yourself. I seem to attract all sorts of unwanted attention ALL THE TIME. I get messages daily from people who hate me for building a platform that exists to give women a voice. I just want to exist as a woman on the internet without having to "deal" with harassment every day. I find myself crying a lot more lately.

A new study finds that online harassment of women has become the "established norm," with 76% of women under 30 experiencing some form of abuse or harassment online and one in four women under 30 having received general threats of physical violence.

So back to my email. It came about after a self-proclaimed "anti-feminist" and generally awful person with a large online following tweeted a link to our website announcing that we were "shutting down." We're not shutting down, and I shouldn't have opened the email, but it was too late. There I was, in a selfie I had tweeted only a few days prior with penises photoshopped over. It was really upsetting. After finally finding the strength to move from bed, I texted a friend about what was happening and came to the conclusion that I was "over it." What I mean by that is, I'd actually run out of emotion to care about this current situation.

Sarah Sahim, a freelance culture writer who's been in similar situations, says, "I guess I have pretty thick skin and always have; that's not to say it doesn't get overwhelming sometimes. I don't feel the need to justify myself to trolls because their arguments are always baseless and invalid, and they're unwilling to learn. Their sole goal is to wind you up and upset you, so by giving them the time of day you're letting them win. Fortunately the internet is a place where you can simply ignore hate directed your way but that doesn't mean it can't be hurtful."

It took just one tweet to send his hundreds of followers to send both me and Femsplain a flood of harassment and hate. Although he directly isn't sending me these messages, it just doesn't give me hope when I see accounts that were once verified, with hundred thousand followers, allowed to exist for the sole purpose of organizing harassment.

I've used my voice on social media to shed light on what I go through being a woman online. Blocking seems to be the easiest way to ignore, forget, and send them into irrelevancy. But you know what? It's getting really tiresome. Like, I'm physically exhausted after a day of being told everything I've worked so hard on is a joke by faceless accounts on Twitter.

Akilah Hughes, comedian and writer, describes similar horrible experiences.

"It is tough seeing injustice and knowing that you'll be mistreated for speaking out against it, but I'm compelled to. Luckily (and sadly) my skin has grown thicker from being online and on YouTube for nearly a decade. It is exhausting. It's frustrating. Sometimes it makes me second-guess my own reactions to injustice. Like 'oh, well if a bunch of eggs on Twitter are calling me slurs, maybe I am wrong.'"

It's a huge time waster blocking a few hundred accounts per week because the platform I love doesn't seem to love me back. Don't like being harassed on Twitter? Don't use it. That's the only option given to us. Considering 22% of women are active on Twitter, compared to just 15% of men, it feels like a huge oversight that more efforts aren't being made to protect the people who so actively use it.

"I wish Twitter would actually do something when people report dangerous and damaging accounts," says Akilah. "I think if enough people block someone saying racist, sexist, homophobic, ableist, etc., things, the algorithm should, one, not show you their notifications, or, two, delete their account. There's a difference between disagreeing with someone, and hurling racial epithets at them."

"From what I understand, in America it's super hard to remove a troll account without someone claiming they're violating the First Amendment, which is total bullsh*t," says Sarah. "When someone is making rape and death threats - just as I was receiving - I expect Twitter to do something about it and ensure my safety. I reported so many damn accounts and Twitter's only solution was to block them. REMOVE accounts causing people to leave the site because they no longer feel welcome. If Twitter feels that's too 'harsh' for whatever reason, instate a penalty system: three strikes and you're out."

Women, especially transgender women and women of color are constantly fighting a battle to safely use the internet everyday. We hide our true feelings and pretend we don't care because we need to have this hard exterior, because we want to be strong for others going through similar situations. I don't want to do this anymore, I'm too tired. It needs to be okay not to want to "fight back" and to be honest with how we feel. If we continue pretending these faceless, nameless trolls aren't hurting us, how can those in similar situations find and empathize with each other? We mustn't trivialize these harmful actions to our friends who are feeling the effects. We must spend more time listening and showing support.

Like many others I only want to use these platforms for good and for fun. I want to give a voice to those who don't feel like they have one. I want to focus on building my company like other founders do without this additional layer of negativity and stress. Listen, I know that no matter what you do the trolls will always be there, but If I have to "deal" with the awful replies and setting up email filters each day so that I can still enjoy my time online, I'm going to deal with it in the most human way I possibly can.

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The Harsh Realities of Being a Woman on Social Media

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One morning I woke up to find something awful sitting in my email inbox. Something that made me physically ill and unable to get out of bed for hours. The subject was "Open for a surprise" and somehow it slipped past my spam filter and burned into my mind forever.

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News - Are women the key to social media? - Weber Shandwick

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Females deserve especially close attention from marketers. A recent report from the Pew Research Center found that the percentage of female Internet users who use social networking sites well surpasses that of men (75% vs. 63%, respectively.)

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Cyberfeminists asked: Could we use technology to hack the codes of patriarchy? Could we escape gender online? Cyberfeminism explored by digital art.

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Cyberfeminism resisted easy definition and, as the manifesto showed, there were multiple iterations and conflicting notions of what it was-and was not. By 1997, the movement was running into trouble. Haraway and Butler's texts had called for the dissolution of gender and racial hierarchies, but it was increasingly clear that cyberfeminism had failed to address race at all.

What's more, the notion that the internet could be employed as a categorically liberated space proved to be too optimistic. It was following the Cyberfeminist International in Kassel that Wilding mounted an important critique of the movement. "The Net is not a utopia of nongender," she wrote in Where is the Feminism in Cyberfeminism. "It is already socially inscribed with regard to bodies, sex, age, economics, social class, and race."

The cyberfeminists, Wilding claimed, had failed to actively interrogate the biases entrenched in cyberspace. "Being bad grrls on the internet is not by itself going to challenge the status quo," she went on. "Cyberfeminism presents itself as inclusive, but the cyberfeminist writings assume an educated, white, upper-middle-class, English speaking, culturally sophisticated readership," Wilding and Maria Fernandez wrote in the book Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices.

The movement's advocates may have been bold and brazen, but while purporting to move beyond hierarchal divisions, Wilding felt that they had, unwittingly, reinstated them. She extended her practice to explore the intersection of feminism with other technologies beyond the internet, such as biotechnology-the next frontier for gender discrimination. She founded subRosa, an art collective that critiqued the racial and gender biases in assisted fertility and genetic engineering.

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How the Cyberfeminists Worked to Liberate Women through the Internet

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"How hashtag activism is changing the way we protest"

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Event planning site Meetup.com has also contributed to the #Resist movement. The company said it is committed to bringing together members who want to get politically involved in their communities. The site created #Resist pages and local activist members have populated them. In North Texas, more than 20 groups tagged to individual cities have organized, such as #Resist: Dallas.

"Since the recent United States election, we've seen a dramatic increase in Meetup members pursuing and creating opportunities for civic engagement on our platform," the company said.

Baird has been mostly involved with local organizations like the Liberty Tree Foundation, which says it supports grassroots campaigns for democratic reform, and the Indivisible Movement DFW, which calls itself "an inclusive coalition to fight the rise of tyranny." She said the creation of Meetup pages has brought more participants into local organizations.

She does, however, notice the generational differences in organizing and planning techniques. Baby boomers, she said, want to meet in person while younger activists say meetings are a waste of time.

The group decided a compromise: Video calling could be allowed.

"There's three generations with distinct communication styles depending on when they grew up. And then there's the really old people with flip phones," Baird said. "The flip-phone people are really a challenge because they don't text. We have lots of people in their 80s."

For them, it's still mostly a call for when they're meeting and where.

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It is the only magazine in the world that is dedicated to female drummers. According to the magazine's website, "Tom Tom's purpose is to raise awareness about girl and women percussionists from all over the world, to inspire females of all ages to drum, and to strengthen and build the otherwise fragmented community of female musicians."

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