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To investigate why the #MeToo movement in India fails to represent marginalized caste, class, and gendered narratives on Twitter, and to reimagine more inclusive digital feminist organizing.

April 13, 2021Feminist Media Studies

Exclusion in #MeToo India: rethinking inclusivity and intersectionality in Indian digital feminist movements

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NNNanditha NarayanamoorthyCenter for Information Technology

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Qualitative analysis reveals systemic exclusion of marginalized castes and trans women in #MeToo India on Twitter, highlighting the need for intersectional digital feminist activism.

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To investigate why the #MeToo movement in India fails to represent marginalized caste, class, and gendered narratives on Twitter, and to reimagine more inclusive digital feminist organizing.
Conducted a comprehensive literature review and qualitative social media data collection of discourse surrounding the #MeTooIndia hashtag on Twitter.
Applied intersectionality theory to analyze how intersecting identities of caste, class, and gender influence participation and visibility in digital feminist activism.
Hashtag discourse disproportionately focused on sexual misconduct experiences shared by urban elite figures, including Bollywood celebrities, journalists, and politicians.
Discussions largely omitted the systemic harassment and abuse routinely experienced by Dalit women, trans women, and other lower-caste and working-class communities.
Pervasive masculine toxicity on Twitter established an unsafe digital environment that actively suppressed personal narrative disclosures from gendered minorities.

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Nanditha Narayanamoorthy (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1070615725bbd5cc6103b2 https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1913432

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Qualitative analysis reveals systemic exclusion of marginalized castes and trans women in #MeToo India on Twitter, highlighting the need for intersectional digital feminist activism.

Exclusion in #MeToo India: rethinking inclusivity and intersectionality in Indian digital feminist movements

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Exclusion in #MeToo India: rethinking inclusivity and intersectionality in Indian digital feminist movements

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