Digitizing Dissent in Fiction: Intan Paramaditha’s Gendered Narratives and Planetary Health

This paper examines the role of digital tools in enhancing feminist and ecological awareness through literature pedagogy in Indonesia. Against the backdrop of ongoing gender-based and environmental crises, we explore how digital learning practices intersect with critical literary studies. Focusing on two key works by Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha, The Wandering: Choose Your Own Red Shoes Adventure (2020) and Apple and Knife (2018), the study investigates how these texts can be integrated into English language and literature classrooms to encourage student engagement with themes of bodily autonomy, ecological justice, and gendered resistance. Utilizing a decolonial ecofeminist lens and qualitative textual analysis, this research observes how students, through activities such as digital storytelling, interactive fiction writing, visual mapping, and role-based performance, recontextualize Paramaditha’s narratives into contemporary digital forms. The findings suggest that embedding these literary texts within participatory digital pedagogy not only nurtures critical reading and multimodal literacy but also supports students in confronting socio-ecological inequalities. By situating feminist literature within digital environments, this paper advocates for an alternative model of language and arts education that fosters critical, situated, and imaginative responses to gender and environmental concerns in the Indonesian digital context.