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#BringBackOurGirls: Hashtags alone will not safeguard women’s lives and rights

By Tegan Zimmerman, Chair, Alexa McDonough Institute, Mount Saint Vincent University
Adebola Esther Osegboun, Lecturer in Political Science, Federal University, Oye Ekiti

Social media can reach people around the world. However, the simplicity and superficiality of hashtags neither readily lend themselves to feminist causes nor were they designed to be feminist tools.

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