Women's Solidarity and Social Media: Sisterhood Concept in #LasRespondonas, a Facebook group in Peru

TL;DR

This study explores how a Peruvian feminist Facebook group fosters female solidarity and sisterhood, highlighting its role as a central feminist political concept through analysis of online interactions and interviews.

Contribution

It provides an in-depth analysis of the meaning and role of sisterhood in online feminist activism within a Peruvian Facebook community.

Findings

Sisterhood is a core concept in the group's feminist practice.

Online interactions reinforce female solidarity and political identity.

The group uses social media to organize and support victims of gender violence.

Abstract

Women in Peru are exposed daily to gender violence and exclusion. Several feminist groups have used social media to share information, debate, denounce, organize, and provide help to victims. This contribution analyzes the meaning of female solidarity, sisterhood or sororidad, as a feminist political concept among members of one feminist Facebook group. We reviewed the how various feminist and sisterhood concepts clustered together in the group communications by reviewing group publications and comments as far as interviewing key former and current members. The sisterhood concept was found to be central to feminist practice.