Social Media Justice | Our Voices, Our Choices

In this episode, we hear from feminist activists on three continents who, because of the coronavirus pandemic, are relying on social media to push equal rights legislation, focusing on issues that have been exacerbated by SARS-CoV-2. We hear about reduced abortion access from an American reproductive rights organisation that was launched unintentionally by a single tweet. We also talk about how the pandemic has stripped female Indian garment workers of hard-earned rights, hearing from a trade unionist who is connecting mill workers on a social network that doesn’t need the internet. And we talk to feminist campaigners in Turkey about the increased risk of domestic violence and femicide during lingering lockdowns and why women’s names are constantly trending on social media. (A Podcast by Esme Nicholson)
Participants: Erin Jorgensen, Alex, Lamuel Enoch, Sujata Mody, Irem, Melek Arimari
Editors: Gitanjali More, Katharina Prott and Christoph Mayer
Shownotes:The US Reproductive Rights Group that grew out of a hashtag:https://shoutyourabortion.com/
India’s offline answer to Facebook and Twitterhttps://gramvaani.org/
An online monument to Turkey’s femicide Victimshttp://anitsayac.com/?year=2020
The women striving to stop femicidehttp://www.kadincinayetlerinidurduracagiz.net/for-english
Illustration: CC BY NC ND 4.0 Arinda Craciun