Visible on our terms: platformised feminism and the politics of endurance

• Authors: Karin Holosová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article explores how feminist actors in Slovakia use Instagram to sustain po-litically engaged digital practices in a national context marked by institutional neglect and rising anti-gender discourse. While much scholarship on digital feminism has centred on An-glophone contexts and high-profile influencers, this study focuses on users operating outside mainstream visibility, who maintain a feminist presence not through spectacle but through careful negotiation with the platform’s emotional, aesthetic, and algorithmic demands. Drawing on in-depth interviews, the analysis shows how these users adapt to Instagram’s infrastructural pressures while striving to preserve critical integrity and ethical coherence. Their practices reveal a constant tension between the need for visibility and the risk of com-modification, between the desire to communicate structural critique and the constraints of platform legibility. In attending to these dilemmas, the article foregrounds feminist labour as a form of ethical endurance, enacted not through viral reach but through slow, situated, and relational modes of engagement.

Keywords

EN

Slovak feminist activism; platformised feminism; feminist visibility; emotional labour; algorithmic governance

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 85-109
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Karin Holosová

• Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i. / Institute of Sociology CAS, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic