The Other #MeToos

Abstract To attend to the revolutionary international impact of the #MeToo movement, The Other #MeToos collects chapters that examine specific iterations of the #MeToo movement across multiple communities, cultures, and countries. Going beyond gender, the book considers the intersectional assemblage of location, history, religion, ethnicity, race, class, and neoliberalism that inform #MeToo and its place in indigenous and transnational feminisms. From Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Tunisia, and Morocco to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka to South Korea, Japan, and China to South Africa to Latin America to Czech Republic—#MeToo has inspired local movements and hashtag trends like #AnaKaman as well as transnational and collective hashtags like #MosqueMeToo. Therefore, by making feminism mainstream, it has rendered possible international feminist solidarities unlike any other feminist movement that precedes it. It is critical to document these defining feminist moments to acknowledge the diversity and multidimensionality of transnational feminisms, along with exploring the ways the #MeToo movement has informed and transformed them internationally. To that argument, the contributions in this collection examine, analyze, interrogate, celebrate, and critique the reception, translation, and adaptation of #MeToo in their local, indigenous, minoritized, othered, and/or postcolonial contexts. Overall, The Other #MeToos highlights the adaptation, translation, and impact of #MeToo in the Global South to expand the larger discourse and praxes of the #MeToo movement beyond its Americentric focus to explore other feminist publics and possibilities that the movement has enabled.