ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the uses of social media for feminist scholar-activism are explored, along with the challenges and possibilities their use entails. The chapter offers an overview of social media tools and platforms that have been used in feminist activism. It discusses social media as spaces for political engagement, solidarity, knowledge mobilisation, and resistance to systems of oppression that emerge both online and offline, within and beyond the academy. The chapter also explores challenges that feminist scholar-activists face in using social media, concerning the politics of social media engagement for feminist activist research; online privacy, surveillance, and censorship; the relationship between online activism and on-the-ground organising; and the risk of exposure to online violence.
