Feminist Manifestos for Media and Communication brings together evidence-based manifestos for media and communication that take a feminist perspective and add up to a provocative vision of feminist media practices and of feminist communication. The book discusses critical problems and complaints in ways that identify and make the case for actionable, concrete solutions to media problems and deficiencies; it shows how feminist thinking can be usefully and effectively applied to a wide range of journalism, media, and communication practices. The manifestos are not “only” about women but rather offer specific, feasible blueprints for restructuring media in ways that make them fairer and more equitable along many vectors of identity, so that media can better serve democracy. These manifestos give concrete solutions to specific problems that can and should be implemented by journalists, media practitioners, students, faculty, and scholars. Our manifestos are organized around three sets of demands: for better media practices, for more participatory online spaces, and more precise and appropriate language.
Introduction: The herstory of the (feminist) manifesto, Stine Eckert and Linda Steiner
Part I: What the F—k: Demands for Better Media Practices
Chapter 1: A Feminist Media Manifesta, Frieda Werden
Chapter 2: How to Fight for Representational Change, Lori Kido Lopez
Chapter 3: Power, passion, and politics: Vulnerability and feminist ethics in journalism, Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Chapter 4: Women Are Not War or Weather: A Short History of Journalism’s Relationship with Feminism and Why It Needs to Change, Carolyn Kitch
Chapter 5: We Know This Story Too Well: Black Women Struggles in Newsrooms and Journalism Classrooms, Denetra Walker and Erin L. Perry
Chapter 6: More Than Pink Pussyhats: For Better Protest Coverage, Summer Harlow
Chapter 7: For Gender-Sensitive Journalism: Stop Stereotyping, Diminishing, and Marginalizing Women, Dustin Harp
Chapter 8: Still on the Sidelines: Women’s Sports, Women Athletes, and Women Sports Journalists Deserve Better, Carolina Velloso
Chapter 9: We Need Gender Equality in Children’s Media, Dafna Lemish
Part II: This Was Supposed to be a Better Place -- Demands for Online Spaces
Chapter 10: Imagining a Better Internet Through a Feminist Lens, Gina M. Masullo
Chapter 11: Online and Unguarded: Newsrooms Must Be Radical About Protecting Black Women Journalists, Erin L. Perry and Denetra Walker
Chapter 12: When White Feminists Become Mean Girls: Calling White Feminists In to Stop Gaslighting, Gatekeeping, and Girlbossing, Kim Hong Nguyen and Katy Fulfer
Chapter 13: The Complexities of “Cancel Culture,” Its Practices and Politics, Eve Ng
Chapter 14: The Internet Is (and Remains) for P0rn, Jade Metzger-Riftkin and Amara B. Sugalski
Chapter 15: Can You See Me Beyond, NOT Behind, My Hijab? Resisting Muslim Women’s (Mis)Representation and (Under)Representation in Western Media, Sahar Khamis
Part II: Precision, Precision – Demands for Language
Chapter 16: Repeat After Us: Gender Is About Culture; Sex About Biology, Linda Steiner and Stine Eckert
Chapter 17: Let Me Blow Your Mind: “Biological Sex” Is a Made-Up Category That Belies the Complexity of Nature, Miglena Sternadori
