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#ChallengeAccepted was making zero sense to me and I wasn’t buying that it was just for vanity’s sake. Talked to some women in Turkey this AM who say it started there as a response to them being frustrated over always seeing black and white photos of women who have been killed
The Turkish hashtags about domestic violence and femicide were dropped as the challenge went viral. The images were for women to bond “but MORE importantly that we know that we can be the next trending image and hashtag.” - @zeycan_rochelle
The original accompanying hashtags were #kadınaşiddetehayır
#istanbulsözleşmesiyaşatır which I’m told translate to say no to violence against women &
enforce the Istanbul Treaty/ Doctrine (where rights to protect women are signed.)
#istanbulsözleşmesiyaşatır which I’m told translate to say no to violence against women &
enforce the Istanbul Treaty/ Doctrine (where rights to protect women are signed.)
But because we are who we are we’ve boiled this down to an empty “empowerment” by selfie thing, as @TaylorLorenz notes here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/style/challenge-accepted-instagram.html
Adding here that the black and white photo trend started years ago (this is in @TaylorLorenz’s great story). The way it’s come out of Turkey in the past week or so is just one iteration of this. It’s also been done in other countries.
