1) Caroline Criado-Perez: Female Presence on banknotes
Caroline Criado-Perez in a English feminist activist and journalist born in Brazil. She wanted a gain on representation of women on banknotes in 2013. She was successful but people on Twitter gave her some online abuse like "Get back to the kitchen, shut up, F*ck off" Her efforts led to a decision by the bank of England to review the selection process for future bank notes. After that the bank of England announced that Jane Auestin will appear on the £10 note by 2017.
2) Ched Evans
This article from The Telegraph spoke about how a feminist made an online petition against convicted rapist Ched Evans who is a professional footballer who was sent to prison for doing so. This online petition gained many signings with 160,000 in total and 21,000 in 24 hours. This then stopped a deal for Evans signing for Oldham football club as they no longer wanted to sign him after everything that has happened in the media whereas at first they had offered him a long term contract. Similarly the club Evans used to play for Sheffield United had him training at their club but they stopped him from training with them due to them also getting negative media coverage where the local people and fans were going against them.
3)Caitlin Moran
Twitter Silence was a protest made up on Twitter where women were to stay silent on Twitter for a day to show their inability to speak up on Twitter in general without obtaining any sort of abuse. This idea came about from a quote in Jane Austen's book; Northanger Abbey. Due to the abuse on Twitter aimed at the campaign set up by Caroline Criado Perez which was to put up Jane's picture on a banknote. Her fellow feminists 'rallied up' and Caitlin Moran came up with the idea of 'shutting up' on Twitter.
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