Open AccessPussy power not pity porn: Embodied protest in the #FacesOfProstitution Twitter network
Author(s) -
Middleweek Belinda
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sexualities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.706
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1461-7382
pISSN - 1363-4607
DOI - 10.1177/1363460718818964
Subject(s) - pity , embodied cognition , anonymity , politics , materialism , agency (philosophy) , power (physics) , sociology , sex work , media studies , social movement , gender studies , political science , social science , social psychology , law , epistemology , psychology , medicine , philosophy , physics , family medicine , quantum mechanics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)
The use of selfies as a political tool is critical to the form, shape and expression of online activist networks. In the trending Twitter #FacesOfProstitution, such self-presenting practices challenged the prevailing politics of anonymity around sex work and articulated new modes of political organizing, agency and information dissemination within a networked online community. Analysing the sex worker online campaign using feminist materialist approaches to the body this interdisciplinary article contributes to current discussions about selfies and embodied forms of activism in online spaces and addresses a gap in sex advocacy literature on digital protest cultures.
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