Toward an intersectional political economy of autonomous media resources Sandra Jeppesen and Kamilla Petrick | 2018 | article in Interface: a journal for and about social movements This paper presents results of a co-research project with autonomous media activists to analyze the challenges they face when mobilizing resources, and the […]
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Intersectionality in autonomous journalism practices Sandra Jeppesen | 2018 | article in Journal of Alternative & Community Media Media activists who are women, queer, trans*, Indigenous and/or people of colour are shifting mediascapes through intersectional autonomous journalism practices. This community-based co-research project analyses data from six semi-structured focus group workshops […]
by Ellen Craig Collective memory can take on a few different meanings. Author Holly Thorpe defines it as “representation of the past, both the past shared by a group and a past that is collectively commemorated, that enacts and gives substance to the group’s identity, its present conditions and its […]
Comparing digital protest media imaginaries: anti-austerity movements in Greece, Italy & Spain Emiliano Treré, Sandra Jeppesen and Alice Mattoni | 2017 | article in tripleC This article presents findings from an empirical study of repertoires of contention and communication engaged during anti-austerity protests by the Indignados in Spain, the precarious […]
“We have to bring it back to the context of the history of oppression, and how it relates to all marginalized communities. As we protect indigenous sovereignty, we can do a lot to protect other marginalized communities”
by Shelagh Pizey-Allen In January 2017, Toronto police officers were captured on video Tasering and kicking a person who was restrained and lying on the ground. One officer threatened to seize the video: “Stop recording or I’m going to seize your phone as evidence and then you’re going to lose your phone.” […]
MARG: toward an antiauthoritarian profeminist media research methodology Sandra Jeppesen, Toni Hounslow, Sharmeen Khan and Kamilla Petrick | 2017 | article in Feminist Media Studies In this article we map a taxonomy of activist-research, illustrating how MARG brings together five specific methodologies— activist-led issue-based research, militant participatory ethnography, feminist community […]
by Sandra Jeppesen In September 2016 I traveled to Loughborough in the UK to present our research on anti-authoritarian feminist media activism at ASN4 – Anarchist Studies Network. ASN4 was probably the best anarchist conference I’ve participated in. The theme this year was ‘anarchist feminism’, so there were a lot […]
MARG member Sharmeen Khan was recently interviewed by Toronto journal Upping the Anti about her work as an activist and her 10 year journey as one of the founding editors of the journal. Sharmeen Khan is a South Asian feminist and socialist with more than two decades of experience in […]