Feminist Sub-Counterpublics in Digital White Power Discourses
Open AccessWhite power organizations have found comfort in the internet. The affordances online spaces provide, such as anonymity and the disruption of space and time, allows hateful discursive spaces like the white nationalist website, Stormfront.org, to flourish for over 25 years. While organized white power movements are primarily constituted of men, there has been an increase of women’s support since the late 90s and early 2000s, which corresponds with the increase of available forums, chat networks, and webpages for white power as the internet gained popularity. Through meticulous scrutiny of The Women’s Forum, a space on Stormfront dedicated solely to white women and topics of their concern, I seek to detail the Bakhtinian chronotopes of their induction into white power and describe how they have contributed to The Women’s Forum as a sub-counterpublic. Looking at the specific ways in which white women situate their subjectivities over time and through space, I argue for the delineation of the sub-counterpublic as a way to better describe the double-embedding of white women's discursive arena on Stormfront. Thinking critically about these narratives and their audiences, I offer possible interventions as well as outline potential directions for further inquiry.
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