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100			_aBayfield, Hannah _952810
245			_aAwesome women and bad feminists: _bthe role of online social networks and peer support for feminist practice in academia
260			_bsage _c2020
300			_aVol 27, Issue 3, 2020 : (415-435 p.).
520			_aIn her book, ‘Bad Feminist’, Roxane Gay claims this label shamelessly, embracing the contradictory aspects of enacting feminist practice while fundamentally being ‘flawed human[s]’. This article tells a story inspired by and enacting Roxane Gay’s approach in academia, written by five cis-gendered women geographers. It is the story of a proactive, everyday feminist initiative to survive as women in an academic precariat fuelled by globalised, neoliberalised higher education. We reflect on what it means to be (bad) feminists in that context, and how we respond as academics. We share experiences of an online space used to support one another through post-doctoral life, a simple message thread, which has established an important role in our development as academics and feminists. This article, written through online collaboration, mirrors and enacts processes fundamental to our online network, demonstrating the significance and potential of safe digital spaces for peer support. Excerpts from the chat reflect critically on struggles and solutions we have co-developed. Through this, we celebrate and validate a strategy we know that we and others like us find invaluable for our wellbeing and survival. Finally, we reflect on the inherent limitations of exclusive online networks as tools for feminist resistance.
650			_a‘bad feminism’, _952811
650			_a feminist geography, _950516
650			_a online social networks, _952812
650			_a peer mentors, _952813
650			_aprecariat _952814
700			_aColebrooke, Laura _952815
700			_aPitt, Hannah _952816
700			_aPugh, Rhiannon _952817
700			_4Stutter, Natalia
773	0		_010528 _916510 _dSage publisher 2019 - _tCultural geographies
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/1474474019890321
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