Three women running a movement that is uniting activists to participate in online and offline protests, addressing inequality, and pushing for social and political change is powerful. The Black Lives Matter movement is teaching us how a social movement can initiate social change, combine digital activism with traditional protests and …
With my previous posts (#blacklivesmatter – the story behind the hashtag, Is doing ‘something’ better than doing nothing? and Creating change through online and offline activism) I’ve tried to dig deeper into the origins and success of the BLM movement. However, this is not only a blog about social movements and …
Black Lives Matter isn’t the first social movement to engage an international audience, create political and public engagement by using social media. Both the Fridays for Future movement (with Greta Thunberg in the lead), the Arabic Spring and #IWillGoOut have led the way in showing how social media can engage …
You may have read my How to be a Clicktivist post, you ought to know that being a White Saviour is a level up in the Development Game. Unlike Clicktivism, White Saviourism is not a new phenomenon (colonialism, anyone?). Sure, these days White Saviours don’t commit genocides, enslave people, and …
With the dramatic increase in social media shares, demonstrations around the world and attention in international media, I suppose no one has missed the Black Lives Matter movement. The movement grew immensely during the first half of 2020 after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, two Americans killed …
