In recent years, young people in Australia and abroad have taken to social media to express their concerns about the violent behaviour of their peers, and to share content that challenges the causes of gender-based and interpersonal violence. From launching policy-changing petitions to responding to and engaging with online campaigns, young people are pushing action and momentum from generational changes in feminist movements. Young people have their own contexts and influences that affect understandings and responses to gendered inequality and violence. This paper discusses the findings of nine focus groups with 32 young people who share content online about preventing gender-based violence, exploring their perceptions on their reasonings for using these tools and how they came to assumptions about gender inequality. It explores the contexts that young people in Australia draw upon to challenge existing gender inequalities and their reasonings for using social media to share ideas about preventing violence with others. The findings of this paper, thus, have implications for how young people are engaged in the primary prevention of gender-based violence, suggesting better use for social-media-campaign content engagement.

While change to the retail landscape is a vital component of the gentrification narrative, most literature engages with the gentrification of retail from an objective position. In this article, we explore the process of rapid gentrification of Boundary Street, West End in Brisbane, Australia through the eyes of retailers themselves using photo elicitation. Retailers to varying degrees see themselves as custodians of the street and a disappearing public realm. We explore their narratives of change and authenticity in a rapidly changing spatial environment, driven by top-down capital-led gentrification. We use the perspective of retailers as newcomers, “voyeurs”; or more longstanding players, “curators,” to argue that the transformation of retail in a gentrifying neighborhood can be used to signify moments in the shift of the “authentic” from community to aestheticization and then to outright commodification.

Issue addressed: Primary prevention of violence against women (PVAW) strategies and campaigns aim to address and challenge violence‐supportive behaviour and normative social structures to intervene before violence happens. Towards this aim, from 2014 to 2019, The Line was a public Australian Commonwealth‐supported PVAW campaign on social media that targeted young people. This study explores how young people discussed PVAW‐related themes on the campaign's Facebook page.Methods: Social media scraping tools were used to collect 346 941 comments on The Line's Facebook page from 2014 to 2017. In this study, 3663 comments included three high frequency, PVAW‐related key terms, ‘violence’ (1430 comments), ‘gender’ (1602 comments) and ‘consent’ (631 comments). These were identified and were thematically coded.Results: Young people's comments indicated high support for violence prevention but varied in how they understood gendered violence and factors that contribute to it, and instead, some argued that the campaign should not ignore men. Some young people who engaged with The Line on a long‐term basis and spoke to its aims, proposed interpretations from their experiences, and challenged the campaign to progress.Conclusions: This study demonstrates that young people influence each other by adopting and disrupting PVAW knowledge in a publicly funded social media campaign.So what?: Public PVAW social media campaigns can encourage young people to discuss gendered violence online. However, successful campaigns need ongoing support to develop conversations with target populations that allow diverse audiences to build their knowledge.

Gender-based violence may be considered a failure or absence of care across the interpersonal, symbolic, and structural levels. Feminist scholars have called for closer attention to an ethic of care as one vital pathway to shared solidarity for social justice and relations of non-violence. Works from Black, Indigenous, queer and disability writers and activists have similarly illustrated the transformative potential of collective care for building community and ending systems of oppression. In this paper, we draw on this critical literature to argue for framing collective care as both a practice and a long-term objective in work to prevent gender-based violence. To illustrate this framing, we share empirical data from two Australian studies: one with young people using social media to prevent gender-based violence, and one with prevention practitioners who work with men and boys. Our findings are organised around four central themes: care as collaboration; transformative care; a politic of care; and collective care in structural change. These findings represent patterns in practice, political approach, and imagined futures among our research participants that we suggest are reflective of ongoing commitments to empathy, compassion, and accountability. These patterns are substantively distinct from much mainstream programmatic and policy approaches to gender-based violence prevention, which often reproduce individualistic frames and are constrained by funding and governance models. We argue that violence prevention is fundamentally a shared project of collective care: supporting one another to recognise, interrogate, and challenge the gendered norms and structures that perpetuate gender-based violence. This work is inescapably relational, political, personal, and motivated by a shared sense of caring for each other.