@inquiline (1) this is great! Genuinely helpfully reframed a bunch of things for me. Also funny. 🫏
(2) Maybe because "Twitter and Tear Gas" conformed to my experience, I thought academia was mostly skeptical of the impact of hashtag activism? (See also the small but related, and negative, lit on "politics as fandom".) The paper takes for granted that the value is more unambiguously positive.
Was dealing with that critique just out of scope, or is your position much more positive?