Women’s Common Experience – #YesAllWomen

May 27, 2014

A hashtag, #YesAllWomen, was started in the wake of Friday’s shootings in Santa Barbara and continues to trend on Twitter.

In 140 characters or less thousands of women are sharing their experiences of misogyny, sexism, and other forms of gender based violence and discrimination.  Even at 12:15 am EST on Tuesday morning, new tweets were coming in at the rate of more than 200 per minute.

Click here for a Mashable report including an animated map of how the hashtag grew since its inception on May 24.

To experience this global conversation as it happens, click here to read the tweets.

Twitter is a social media sharing service in which very short messages are exchanged between users, but unlike email, most of the messages (“tweets”) are visible to everyone. A hashtag is a word (or short phrase made into a single word) preceded by the # symbol. Hashtags are searchable so a user can easily access every message containing a certain hashtag.  This enables something akin to a “conversation” about a certain topic to take place among the millions of Twitter users.

posted by Marg Herder

The Christian Feminism Today website addresses topics of interest to Christian feminists. It features articles, opinion pieces, reviews of books and recordings (audio and video), interviews with Christian women and men who live according to Christian feminist principles and promote gender equality, love, and social justice among all people. We welcome submissions for consideration. Writer's guidelines are here.

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