Twitter

'Smashing the Patriarchy...' now has its own twitter account! You can find us using our handle which is @acafem2014 or search for #acaFEMic. We've seen twitter used for live-tweeting conferences before and we know it can be useful for maintaining a sense of community after an event has come to an end. This is the future we hope to achieve for our little account since one of our goals for the event is to build connections between feminist academics - with communication comes strength, and we hope this will help by acting as one of our virtual living-rooms, an electronic space to share our ideas.
There are, of course, problems with such a public-facing medium. Audra Mitchell posted this report to the London School of Economics blog just yesterday, discussing how female academics face particular problems with online abuse when using the internet to promote their work. Perhaps this is one of the issues we'll be discussing at the 'Smashing the Patriarchy...' conference - hopefully we can find ways of addressing this through discussion and mutual support.
In the meantime, if you're a twitter addict and you want to be up to date with our progress - come and say hi!