Using my first source, Slutwalk: Feminism, Activism, and Media by Kaitlynn Mendes, I will reflect on how social media helped foster this movement and helped develop online spaces for feminists to group and share their experiences. I will relate it to Foust and Hoyt article on social movement 2.0 and how social media integrates with a movement. I can also look at the #Slutwalk and others like it on all of the social media platforms that it is used on such as, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
I will relate the Leung and Williams intersectionality article to the Slutwalk movement. In their article they discus intersectionality as it relates to the #MeToo movement and I will attempt to show similar challenges in the Slutwalk movement. In an article in the NewStatesman magazine, Amber Rose's Slutwalk: Is the controversial feminist movement still relevant?, Evans discusses that not everyone is comfortable embracing the word slut. In 2011, a group of black female activists wrote a letter addressing the Slutwalk movement saying that, “as black women we do not have the privilege or the space to call ourselves ‘slut’ without validating the already historically entrenched ideology and recurring messages about what and who the black woman is.”
Cathcart attempts to develop a definition for the rhetorical movement in his article New Approaches to the Study of Movements: Defining Movements Rhetorically. He states that the two Burkeian ratios, agency-scene and agency-act, need to be present for a true movement to take place. Using an article from the Washington Post, SlutWalks and the future of feminism, I will attempt to show that the Slutwalk is definable as a rhetorical movement.
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