Identity (re)definitions and (de)constructions in the Facebook´s activist communities: post-feminist and queer epistemological contributions

This paper presents some research results on identity related to genre and sexuality carried out in six Facebook activist communities. Through the analysis of discussions on identity (re)definitions and (de)constructions mediated by multimodal writing in these virtual sociointeractional spaces, it points out the contributions of post-modern feminist theory, named post-feminism, and queer theory towards a better understanding of the phenomena studied, and argues that these contributions are relevant as instruments of knowledge production in a contemporaneous process which is of great interest to the applied field of language studies.

identity; genre and sexuality; post-modern feminism; queer; Facebook