[DIA]show(c/c) from #MeTooSTS / #WeDoSTS: A Transformative Movement Through Post-traumatic Academia

This article offers an autoethnographic and multimodal analysis of the #MeTooSTS/#WeDoSTS movement, initiated through a public Medium testimony on gender-based violence and abuse of power in academia. Writing from a scholar-survivor-activist standpoint, I trace how public disclosure operates as both epistemic intervention and affective labour, revealing field “shadow zones” in science and technology studies (STS). The article documents the testimonial writer’s journey after going public, including legal threats, institutional backlash, and attempts at containment. Methodologically, the piece combines autoethnography, visual storytelling, and movement analysis to conceptualise disclosure as field shadow work: a reparative practice that exposes hidden power relations while generating new collective forms of knowing, solidarity, and critique. Against institutional logics of closure, I argue that survivor-led disclosure produces fragile yet generative openings for transformative justice in academic fields. The article theorises public testimony as a mode of survivance that resists silencing, reclaims epistemic authority, and reimagines the conditions of academic belonging.