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17. Sisterhood at a Distance: Doing Feminist Support Work Online.

Author

Bäckström Olofsson, Hanna and Goicolea, Isabel

Subjects
*SAFETY, *FEMINISM, *SELF-efficacy, *RESEARCH funding, *AFFINITY groups, *INTERNET, *SOCIAL case work, *THEMATIC analysis, *SOCIAL support, *COUNSELING, *SOCIAL stigma
Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the characteristics of feminist peer support in the context of online chat counseling. Based on 15 interviews with female lay supporters associated with a branch of the Swedish women's shelter movement targeting young women, we explore how the digital setting—characterized by distance and anonymity—affects the meaning and doing of feminist support. Our results show that core principles of feminist support—striving for equality and trust, the crafting of safe spaces, and sharing experiences—are all renegotiated and/or accentuated by the digital setting. The chat is experienced as enabling a more equal relationship and a high level of safety. The meaning of safety has largely shifted, however, from being associated with a feminist community to safety associated with solitude and distance. We further show a tension in the respondents' understanding of shared experiences, stressing both the importance of situated knowledges and the value of not knowing who is seeking or offering support. By combining research and material on feminist support and online youth counseling, the article offers novel perspectives on feminist counseling and social work, the power dimensions of online counseling, and the virtual space as an arena for feminist activism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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39. Sisterhood at a distance : doing feminist support work online

Author

Bäckström Olofsson, Hanna and Goicolea, Isabel

Subjects
Gender Studies, Socialt arbete, Social Work, feminist peer support, digital feminism, safe space, digital social work, Genusstudier, online youth counseling
Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the characteristics of feminist peer support in the context of online chat counseling. Based on 15 interviews with female lay supporters associated with a branch of the Swedish women's shelter movement targeting young women, we explore how the digital setting—characterized by distance and anonymity—affects the meaning and doing of feminist support. Our results show that core principles of feminist support—striving for equality and trust, the crafting of safe spaces, and sharing experiences—are all renegotiated and/or accentuated by the digital setting. The chat is experienced as enabling a more equal relationship and a high level of safety. The meaning of safety has largely shifted, however, from being associated with a feminist community to safety associated with solitude and distance. We further show a tension in the respondents’ understanding of shared experiences, stressing both the importance of situated knowledges and the value of not knowing who is seeking or offering support. By combining research and material on feminist support and online youth counseling, the article offers novel perspectives on feminist counseling and social work, the power dimensions of online counseling, and the virtual space as an arena for feminist activism.

Published
2023

41. Understanding How Young People Do Activism: Youth Strategies on Sexual Health in Ecuador and Peru

Author

Coe, Anna-Britt, Goicolea, Isabel, Hurtig, Anna-Karin, and San Sebastian, Miguel

Abstract

While social movement research employs "tactical repertoire" to emphasize protest tactics directed at the state, literature on youth activism globally indicates that young people do politics outside the realm of formal political spheres. Youth activism on body politics in Latin America offers evidence that enhances conceptual tools intended for understanding how young people make claims and toward whom they make them. This article takes young activists' strategies as its point of departure through a study that explored how young people perceived their activism to advance sexual health in Ecuador and Peru. Young activists employed a range of interconnected strategies that went beyond protests directed at the state, including responding to adult allies, carrying out social advocacy among youth, building organizations, carrying out political advocacy, and developing themselves as activists. Strategies were shaped by the degree to which young activists negotiated alternative notions of "youth" with different actors.

Published
2015
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