Political and digital expressions of feminist collectives on Instagram

Abstract

This research focuses on the digital communication of Brazilian feminist groups called “coletivos/as”. We analyzed posts from 54 pages of these groups on Instagram.We also mobilized interviews with 30 young feminists from student collectives, in order to understand their relationships with consumption and production of digital feminist content. Our results point to the diversity of themes on the pages of the collectives, with the concern to anchor the posts with indications of feminist readings, academic or not, gaining relevance. Agendas such as violence, abortion and debates about bodily expressions and their resistance are also prominent. The interviews and analysis of the digital content reveal how the construction of activism and understanding about feminisms, especially by young women, is crossed by knowledge and information shared online.