The Feminist Five were eventually released on bail after 37 days in detention, but remained under constant surveillance, The Guardian wrote at the time. That should be fuel for the the rest of us who are fighting our own battles, wherever we are in the world. They used the group messaging platform WeChat to communicate, and wrote using emojis instead of censored hashtags, in order to spread their message on social media, the author explained. In the wake of the event, Chinese authorities began a "systematic crackdown" on feminism - censoring feminist discussions on social media, supporting nationalistic tweets, and persecuting individual feminist activists, said Hong Fincher.ĭespite authorities' efforts to snuff out the movement, activists found creative ways to fight back.
(Nora Tejada Verso Books) Skirting social media censorship Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement, and describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world.Author Leta Hong Fincher has explored what the 2015 arrests meant for the feminist movement in her latest book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China. Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their 'joy of betraying Big Brother,' as one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest challenge to China's authoritarian regime today.
But the Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists, and online warriors prompting an unprecedented awakening among China's educated, urban women. The Feminist Five became a global cause celebre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. A feminist movement clashing with China's authoritarian government
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