ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies a new form of feminism enabled by social media, “indignant feminism.” Analyzing two popular YouTube videos (created in India and Canada), the chapter identifies the contours of indignant feminism, an emergent feminist stance that argues forcefully for feminist challenges to existing institutional structures and cultures of misogyny and sexism. Informed by postcolonial feminist scholarship, the analysis explores the ways in which the two videos critique sexual violence and rape culture within their local contexts, contending that despite containing some elements of a postfeminist sensibility, these videos are successful in producing a transnational community of sentiment that holds activist potential. Irony and humor are signature traits of indignant feminism. The transnational circulation of YouTube videos and the participatory cultures and connectivities they enable become the staging ground for this locally specific but globally legible form of feminism.
