ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the Feminist Anti-War Resistance’s (FAR) use of digital platforms and means of communication. While the previous chapter demonstrated how the emergence and development of the Russophone feminist media ecology facilitated feminist mobilisation against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this chapter discusses the tensions and challenges that digital media technologies and cultures have created for activists in FAR. By focusing on the impact of influencer culture and the attention economy on grassroots feminist projects, on digital communication and the issue of activist burnout, and on the broader contradictions between the media logic and the logic of grassroots politics, this chapter scrutinises the complex relations between digital media culture and feminist mobilisation. It also reveals how this relationship has been reshaped and made even more complex by authoritarianism, the military crisis in Ukraine, and the subsequent politically-driven relocation of the activists to outside Russia.
