The New Politics of Online Feminism: A conversation with Prof. Akane Kanai moderated by Prof. Samuel Huneke

Thursday, February 26, 2026 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EST
Virtual Webinar

Join Professors Akane Kanai and Samuel Huneke for a conversation about Kanai’s new book The Politics of Online Feminism. In it, Kanai argues that for young feminists online culture often poses more dilemmas than it solves. Moving beyond a narrow characterization of online feminism as a site of activism and resistance, Kanai attends to the feminist quandaries of being politically conscientious as life online becomes inseparable from the offline world. She suggests that for online feminists, avoiding complicity with patriarchy, racism, and other oppressions has never been more important, yet the self has remained the central site of agency and transformation—casting politics in terms of individual scrupulousness, diligence, and improvement. 

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Co-sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Program, the Department of History and Art History, and the Center for Humanities Research