Thread by @riddhima_rs

1. Good afternoon everyone! I'm Riddhima. I'm a doctoral student @bgsu and have worked in the digital feminist space through @fempositive for just over half a decade. So excited to be presenting at #DHARTITwitterConf my first Twiter conference experience.

2. My presentation today reflects on the pedagogical potential of digital feminist activist work and knowledges. Particularly creative, multimedia work being done by individuals, collectives and non-profit orgs. #DHARTITwitterConf

3. I draw from my own experiences with digital feminist work, the work of so many wonderful activists, organizers & media producers and through developing my PhD research project with my awesome advisor @cyberdivalivesl #DHARTITwitterConf

4. A caveat here that any sort of digital activism/advocacy work is never completely detached from the offline and often, both feed into and draw from each other. #DHARTITwitterConf

5. @fempositive project #FeministReads & the reading group that sprung out of it have been imp as I was introduced to feminism v. late in life & building a sort of accessible feminist reading list became critical to my feminist praxis. #DHARTITwitterConf

fempositive.org

6. Although they may not identify as a feminist space, @dalitcamera's work of documenting and disseminating imp stories, histories and interviews has been a great digital resource for me to learn from and to engage with in teaching intersectional histories #DHARTITwitterConf

7. The creative work of @sanitarypanels @kadakcollective and several other artists who I might have missed tagging has been SO imp in amplifying feminist resistance through creative visuals. Also, props to them for their efforts in the #AntiCAAProtests #DHARTITwitterConf

8. @dis_sexuality is another brilliant digital project that amplifies the voices of women with disabilities and sexuality. Their blog is a repository of diverse voices and experiences.

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9. XUKIA is a collective from Assam that has done imp work and has worked on coming out with their own "zines" that highlight queer voices from the NE states which has been promoted and disseminated mainly via social media & email.

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facebook.com/xukia.assam/

10. @dalitwomenfight is another extremely imp collective doing online and offline work in fostering Dalit women's leadership. Their YouTube channel has some really imp videos including this on caste-based GBV.

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@dalitwomenfight 11. These are only a handful of a plethora of digital resources that diverse, marginalized groups have been building and sharing that can be (and are) used as pedagogical tools.

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12. In thinking about #DH and #IntersectionalFeministDH the voices and labor of activists and marginalized collectives that are using digital tools to amplify their work need to be included and amplified in DH work and pedagogy.

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13. Apologies for any typos or incorrect representations of any of the individuals/groups' works that I have mentioned. 20 minutes is not as long as one might think to articulate fully one's thoughts.

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14. So this was my very short presentation on the diversity of brilliant digital educational, activist, multimedia and creative work that have been informing my and many other folks' personal political and activist work.

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15. Echoing what @Sujatha1909 had noted in her very brilliant essay “From the Streets to the Web: Looking at Feminist Activism on Social Media.” a few years ago - social media has indeed become a thriving space for activism and learning.

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@Sujatha1909 16. Open to questions and conversations with all the other brilliant participants.

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P.S. Thank you @arjun_ghosh for accommodating my last minute requests.