#YesAllWomen Favorite 

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May 15 2014

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In May, the horrific mass shooting in Isla Vista, CA, triggered national conversations about violent misogyny. After some Twitter users began using the hashtag #NotAllMen to defensively derail the conversation, the hugely popular hashtag #YesAllWomen emerged, getting tweeted over 1 million times within just a few days. The meme provided a vehicle for female-identified people to publicly share common experiences – from objectification and harassment, to all forms of gendered violence. As our friend author-activist Rebecca Solnit described it on Democracy Now, #YesAllWomen was a powerful example of winning the Battle of the Story.

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.