The Woman's Existence: Video Activists' Resistance against Utter Silence

Abstract

Focusing on eight video activists I interviewed in-depth, this article seeks to understand how feminist activists from Turkey contribute to the feminist movement in Turkey through feminist collective memory and feminist solidarity. The use of activist videos as an alternative news space has been on the rise since 2015. At present, video activism is one of the few tools that provide detailed coverage of the challenges faced by the feminist movement in Turkey, its struggle, and the questions and issues it raises in the course of its struggle. We can consider videos as an outlet to the public sphere and explain them in terms of their contribution to collective memory. Video activists who produce and disseminate Feminist Videos contribute to feminist memory. At the same time, revealing who makes these videos and how the activists who make these videos are involved in this process will help us better understand the struggle for feminist visibility.