‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19

BAO, HONGWEI

Abstract

In this short essay, I introduce the ‘Anti-Domestic Violence Little Vaccine’ campaign in China during the COVID-19. After a brief introduction of the campaign by using first-person accounts from the organiser Guo Jing, I will then sum up some of the activist strategies used in the campaign. I will also discuss how the campaign engages with the quarantined public space. I hope that these strategies can inspire activists around the world to find strength and solidarity, and also to seek solutions to tackle the global pandemic. I also suggest that rather than seeing the pandemic as an obstacle to social movements, we can use the pandemic as a good opportunity to experiment with flexible and creative modes of social and political activism.

Citation

BAO, H. (2020). ‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19. Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 12(1), 53 – 63

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 30, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jul 31, 2020
• Publication Date: Jul 31, 2020
• Deposit Date: Feb 23, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: May 12, 2021
• Journal: Interface: a journal for and about social movements
• Print ISSN: 2009-2431
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 53 – 63
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5347451
• Publisher URL: https://www.interfacejournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Interface-12-1-Bao.pdf
• Related Public URLs: https://www.interfacejournal.net/interface-volume-12-issue-1/