#FeministAntibodies: Asian American Media in the Time of Coronavirus

Rachel Kuo, Amy Zhang, Vivian Shaw, Cynthia Wang

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Abstract

This article examines the tensions, communal processes, and narrative frameworks behind producing collective racial politics across differences. As digital media objects, the Asian American Feminist Collective’s zine Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus and corresponding #FeministAntibodies Tweetchat responds directly to and anticipates a social media and information environment that has racialized COVID-19 in the language of Asian-ness. Writing from an autoethnographical perspective and using collaborative methods of qualitative discourse analysis as feminist scholars, media-makers, and interlocuters, this article looks toward the technological infrastructures, social economies, and material forms of Asian American digital media-making in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalSocial Media and Society
Volume6
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • activism
  • Asian American
  • feminist media
  • social media
  • Twitter

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cultural Studies
  • Communication
  • Computer Science Applications

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