DIGITAL JUSTICE AS A STRATEGY OF FEMINIST DECRYPTION OF POWER

The #metoomexicano case

Abstract

The article proposes, taking as a case study the #MeTooMexicano, that digital justice can be a form of decryption of colonial / patriarchal power in the case of sexual and gender violence, as part of Feminism 4.0 or fourth wave, as proposed by feminist Nuria Varela. Encryption of power is understood as the progressive obfuscation of the language of interpretation not only of the Constitution and law, but of a series of processes and data that integrate reality as such; decrypting power thus means reversing the subject's exclusion from coloniality and patriarchy as the basic form of domination. Digital justice is the process mediated by digital platforms, in which, in the utter absence of a functional and efficient system of justice, victims of a crime or violation of human rights, especially victims of sexual and gender-based violence, narrate their experiences under a hashtag with the expectation that it will become a trending topic and its massiveness and virality will have the effect of making the alleged perpetrator visible. The latter can deny or accept the accusation through digital platforms. The central argument is that in the #MeTooMexicano sexual violence was litigated digitally as a strategy to decrypt the colonial and patriarchal power that does not allow women access to justice.