Proponents frame social media memoir as collapsing writer-reader distance into feminist immediacy

Evidence

Enthusing social media as feminist immediacy, the writer Natalie Beach articulates this destination: social profiles are “busting open the form of non-fiction. Instagram is memoir in real time. It’s memoir without the act of remembering. It’s collapsing the distance between writer and reader and critic, which is why it’s true feminist storytelling.” — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 162

Categorization

• XREF: Beach’s manifesto is a compact specimen of the immediacy ideology — real-time, distance-collapsing — that connects to the reader’s goals of naming immediacy’s features and critiquing the collapse of mediation.