Queering the System from within: Autostraddle as a Method for Future Digital Worlds.
Despite the harmful potentials of social media, the digital world appears to offer endless potential for change. A queer and feminist example is Autostraddle, a digital community and publication for LGBTQIA2s + people run by feminist queer and trans folx, that attempts to mitigate the potential harm...
| Publicado en: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 39; no. 121; pp. 371 - 392 |
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