ABSTRACT On 27 April 2021, #YoTeCreo sparked as one of the first major instances of digital feminist activism (DFA) against sexual violence in Venezuela. Women united using both Twitter (since renamed ‘X’) and Instagram, shared their experiences . #YoTeCreo trended and opened further discussions on the prevalence of sexual violence. Through qualitative interviews with eight #YoTeCreo founders, this article centres women’s experiences in organizing in DFA against sexual violence in Venezuela and examines the factors that encouraged the leaders to create this campaign. Through the qualitative analysis, I argue that #YoTeCreo was not simply a transplantation of the #MeToo from North to South. Instead, it was sparked by cross-border movements of ideas, persons, and places; the role of media and entertainment; the role of migrant women; the feeling of ‘hartazgo’, a sense of empathy, and sorority. This article expands on DFA in the Global South; as one of the few contemporary articles analysing DFA in Spanish, attentive to Venezuela’s unique cultural and political circumstances, where academic research is underdeveloped. Finally, it expands feminist knowledges and the existing research on DFA by prioritizing the voices of women leading DFA in the Global South
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