How do hate speech and explicit anti-feminism affect women's rights? feminist communicatorsHow do we individually and collectively guard against this organised tsunami of verbal violence, threats and disqualifications? How do feminisms continue to build and expand their narrative in the midst of all this noise?
STREAMING ROUNDTABLE HERE
In recent times, anti-feminist discourse has been spreading unchecked through social networks. This past 8M At the same time, the hashtags in commemoration of International Women's Day competed with other hashtags that questioned the usefulness of this date, or distorted the very concept of feminism. Unfortunately, there are many feminist communicators or public figures who suffer dehumanising and brutal symbolic and verbal violence on the networks, often reinforced by threats involving sexual or physical violence.
With the Feminisms in the face of hate. Fatigues and Horizons, We wanted to address how hatred is affecting feminist communicators and their narratives and discourses, what collective responses are being thought and put into practice, and how to build outside the agenda that anti-feminism pushes.
To this end, we carry out:
Round table: Strategies from feminisms: combating discourses and constructing new ones
Date: Friday, 18 March 2022
Time: 18:00 -19:30 Spain
Modality: Face-to-face at the Community and Online
Speakers:
- Diana Morena, researcher and lecturer at the University of Vic. She has participated in the research: “Diagnosis of gender-based violence against feminist activists in the digital sphere”.
- María Ángeles Fernández, coordinator of Pikara Magazine, a pioneering magazine on feminist issues and with a gender perspective.
- Ana Polo, humorist, scriptwriter and feminist reporter, with experience in radio and television.
- Anna Celma, journalist for La Directa. Specialised in feminism, migration, repression and social movements.
- Sarah Babiker, feminist journalist, migration and anti-racism coordinator at El Salto.
Moderator: Lucía Mbomio, journalist and television reporter. Author of the books: Those who dared e Daughter of the road.
Workshop: Feminist Communication: Questions for Mapping Answers
Date: Saturday, 19 March 2022
Time: 11:00 -13:00 Spain
Modality: In person at the Communal
This practical workshop was aimed at journalists, communicators and activists with the objective of thinking collectively about the challenges facing feminist communication and the tools to overcome them.
A collective diagnosis of the journey of feminist communication and the challenges it faces, in order to rethink the future.
Programme :
1.Tired and defensive
- Internal perspective: trajectory, rifts and disaffection
- External attacks: hate speech, anti-feminism, anti-feminism
2. Resistances and horizons
- Self-defence and creative responses
- Approaches, voices and narratives that transform.
Facilitated by Sarah Babiker, El Salto reporter and Anna Celma, Directa journalist.
This workshop provided a safe space to jointly assess what has happened in feminist communication in recent years. We also common strategies of self-defence and response to hate speech.
Finally, an exercise was carried out to jointly imagine new approaches and narratives in feminist communication that contribute to going further.
The more than 130 people who attended the conference were very open to participate, share and reflect on these issues.
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