Conclusion

Against the backdrop of online content saturation, the conclusion argues that feminists need more poetry, not more information. Online cultures are often positioned by scholars and students as more accessible, less hierarchical, and more “practical” than the knowledges of academia. And yet these knowledge cultures often did not perform what they purported to do in young feminists’ everyday worlds. They were implicated in the production of new, universalizing benchmarks of knowledge that set feminists up to fail. They raised the standards of what young feminists needed to know to seem “educated,” producing competition and comparison that reinforced classed and racialized inequalities. What young feminists needed, and benefited from, were imaginative spaces in the everyday in which time could be taken to understand the mutual constitution, but not conflation, of the personal, the local, and the structural.