From #YoSíTeCreo to #SeAcabó
An exploration of the traces of the mobilization of rage in feminist digital activism in Spain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4367248 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sonia Núñez Puente (0000-0002-2100-3230, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 16-30 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14647001251371967 |
| OpenAlex | W4414194711 |
| Language | PT |
| References cited | 29 |
The mobilization of Spanish feminist digital activism in April 2018, which followed the public sentencing of the five members of the so-called La Manada (The Pack) for sexual assault, was a milestone that marked the beginning of legislative and social changes in the frameworks of the intelligibility of sexual violence. The mediatization of feminist rage had concrete political, legislative and social effects that lead us to reflect on its politicizing and transformative power. This article analyses the hashtags linked to two fundamental moments in the mobilization of feminist rage in Spain: #YoSíTeCreo (I do believe you), related to the La Manada case in 2018; and #SeAcabó (It's over), which arose as a response to the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, forcibly kissing national team player Jennifer Hermoso in 2023. We will explore both the mobilizing capacity of mediatized rage in Spanish feminist digital activism against sexual violence as well as its epistemic character. In this sense, we assert that the representation and expression of rage in the digital space is shown as a tool capable of revealing knowledge about violence that is not always visible. The rage articulated in the circulation of the hashtags analysed provides insight, this article argues, not only into the subjects who express rage but also into the context in which they express it. In this way, the discursive dimension of hashtags accounts for the genealogy of a digital counter-discourse. This type of counter-discourse destabilizes the frameworks of intelligibility of sexual violence in Spain through the shared expression of anger
Feminism · Legislature · Mobilization · Sexual violence · Social movement · Transformative learning · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Social Media and Politics
HashtagActivism
The Case for Rage
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Constructing Indignation
Consentimiento y rabia en los discursos de medios digitales ante el caso Rubiales
Los mitos de la violación en el caso de 'La Manada'. Una crítica a la división patriarcal público / privado
Reading Rage
Feminist hashtag activism in Spain
Introduction
Process-based activism and feminist politics in the neoliberal age
Believability
Digital footprints of #MeToo
Vernacular practices in digital feminist activism on Twitter
Women are angry
The Spanish 15-M Movement
Digitized narratives of sexual violence
With you, sister @JenniHermoso’
Feminist activists discuss practices of monetisation
MeToo and the promise and pitfalls of challenging rape culture through digital feminist activism
The Aptness of Anger
Outrage Epistemology
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain
Feminist anger and feminist respair
Feeling Beyond Rules
Your Silence Will Not Protect You
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |