ABSTRACT
The morning after a vigil for Sarah Everard, the women kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a police officer in South London, 12-year-old Miriam came to breakfast in Canada and asked her mom, “How can this happen?” Her knowledge of Sarah’s death came from watching TikTok. As Miriam showed Shauna TikToks about Everard’s murder, they tried to make sense of what does not make sense. TikTok not only created space for these conversations but actively participated in them as an accessible platform that concretizes girls’ and women’s fear, anger, and protest. This chapter discusses how immersion in a digital medium generated intergenerational, multidirectional feminist learning. Employing radical media engagement to highlight TikTok as a facilitator of feminism among parents and children, including intersections of sexism and racism that make some stories visible and others invisible, this chapter explores flows of feminist knowledge between mother and daughter through watching and talking about TikToks relating to violence against women.
