Racialised Italians’ response to #BLM
Forms of solidarity, activism and community building on digital spaces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7472787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathasha Edirippulige Fernando (University of Westminster, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Publication date | 2026-02-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Encounters A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2468-4414 • E-ISSN: 2468-4414 |
| Publisher | Lectito Publications (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.20897/femenc/17886 |
| OpenAlex | W7128691010 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Following the rise of the #MeToo movement, the social isolation that followed the Covid-19 pandemic and the global ascent of the Black Lives Matter movement, there has been an increase in discussions and initiatives on digital platforms. In Italy, the alignment of these various phenomena has created a new fertile ground that helped the proliferation of discussions on race related issues arguably for the first time. These have been mainly led by second generation/ racialised Italians (the terminology used to define this group is still being debated in Italy, within the community itself). This article considers the forms of digital activism that developed in Italy, specifically in the years between 2020-2023, and how these tried to disrupt forms of structural racism, epistemic violence, silencing and question the concept of allyship. It draws upon postcolonial feminist theory and the concept of intersectionality to explore how the #BLM movement provided an opportunity to address various forms of oppression in Italy.The research combines autoethnographic analysis of the sociological podcast ‘ Sulla Razza ' [On Race] with interviews to four prominent female activists in Milan
Autoethnography · Critical theory · Feminist theory · Intersectionality · Oppression · Race (biology · Situated · Subjectivity · Terminology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Culture's In-Between
Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature
Digital Feminist Activism
Misogynoir Transformed
The Logic of Connective Action
Sociological podcasting
In search of the ‘we’ of social media activism
Creating the collective
Digital Diasporas
Beyond Bame, WOC, and ‘political blackness’”
The Pandemic is a battlefield. Social movements in the Covid-19 lockdown
In the name of Europe
Domestic work–affective labor
(Im)Migration Research in Italy
Spaces of Visibility for the Migrants of Lampedusa
Black Feminist Thought
Podcasting the Italian Postcolonial
Black matters are spatial matters
Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues
Situated Knowledges
How Native Is a "Native" Anthropologist
Autoethnography as Decolonization, Decolonizing Autoethnography
Introduction
Looking Back, Moving Ahead
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |