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Abstract This article explores the interplay between popular feminist cultures and TikTok’s algorithmic neoliberal and patriarchal logics, focusing on how they shape young women’s sexual self-perception and feminist identities in the postdigital era. Drawing on focus group discussions with women aged 18 to 25, we explore how women’s embodied affective experiences become increasingly defined through digital affordances on platforms like TikTok. In their negotiations of algorithmically contextualised femininity, participants discussed fatigue with —and rejections of— popular feminist ‘empowerment’ discourses, neoliberal ‘confidence culture,’ and ‘boss girl’ formations in exchange for nihilistic heteropessimism and/or embracing of aestheticized gendered domesticity. Applying a postdigital theoretical lens to consider online and physical (offline) affective states of our participants, we argue that the algorithmic infrastructure of TikTok pacifies its users, creating apathetic affects around how femininity is experienced. Consequentially, collective grievances are co-opted by capitalist algorithmic logics and reframed as matters to be addressed through self-centred, consumer-oriented, and aestheticized practices of self-work rather than political/collective feminist praxis. Ultimately, TikTok’s visibility economies privilege the circulation of stylised feminine aesthetics and commodified self-presentation over the possibilities of feminism as a mode of political mobilisation for equity and social justice.

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Encountering the Blank Page: Improvising through Illegible Movements of Mad (Not)Doings

Jose Miguel Esteban

Disability Studies Quarterly·2025

Through this piece, I struggle through the question of what it might mean to embody a mad methodology. Describing my choreographic encounters with a blank page, I reveal the narratives of failure through which my depressed gestures and anxious movements can be made legible as the not doing of academic expectation. And as I engage in a repetition of those gestures of failure, I interpret a performance of not doing that forces me to let go of the legibility through which I typically make sense of my movements as a scholar. As this piece increasingly fragments into a space of illegibility and non-sense, I come closer (but never quite get) to accessing the methodologies through which we might embody the fugitivity of mad study.

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