dc.contributor.author | Wiens, Brianna I. | |
dc.contributor.author | MacDonald, Shana | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-05 18:43:41 (GMT) | |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-05 18:43:41 (GMT) | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-06-05 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16254 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/20376 | |
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.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies; | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | ;10 | |
dc.subject | digital culture | en |
dc.subject | feminism | en |
dc.subject | activism | en |
dc.subject | social media | en |
dc.title | Living whose best life? An intersectional feminist interrogation of postfeminist #solidarity in #selfcare | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Wiens, B. & MacDonald, S. (2021). Living whose best life? An intersectional feminist interrogation of postfeminist #solidarity in #selfcare. NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, 10. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16254 | en |
uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Arts | en |
uws.contributor.affiliation2 | Communication Arts | en |
uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |
uws.peerReviewStatus | Reviewed | en |
uws.scholarLevel | Faculty | en |