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The gains and losses of identity politics: the case of a social media social justice movement called stylelikeU
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. Media and Communications.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5526-9774
Department of English, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China.
2023 (English)In: Critical Discourse Studies, ISSN 1740-5904, E-ISSN 1740-5912, Vol. 20, no 4, p. 415-435Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

StyleLikeU is a hugely successful online social media platform that presents itself as a social justice movement related to body acceptance. Presenting moving personal stories, it offers a site for what it calls 'diverse individuals' to share their experiences as part of promoting individual self-acceptance in the face of a world that prioritizes one kind of body over another, which take the form of ableism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ageism, sizeism and prejudice against disfigurement. Drawing out the discursive script carried across the platform, we show how, beneath the rhetoric of progressiveness, social justice becomes a kind of personal therapy, related to empowerment and transformation, which erases actual differences in personal circumstances and the very forces of injustice. We place StyleLikeU into broader scholarly concerns about the neoliberal colonization of identity politics, diversity and intersectionality in institutions and in branding, drawing attention to how this can form one part of what are now presented as social justice movements.

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Routledge, 2023. Vol. 20, no 4, p. 415-435
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Identity politics, diversity, intersectionality, neoliberalism, social media, multimodality, Critical Discourse Analysis
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Communication Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-98817DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2022.2061544ISI: 000786278800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85129677023OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-98817DiVA, id: diva2:1655353
Available from: 2022-05-02 Created: 2022-05-02 Last updated: 2023-07-28Bibliographically approved

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