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Digital Dilemmas offers a delightful dip into the increasingly pervasive world of online activism, virtual community-building, and resisting gender injustice in the context of everyday leisure practices–practices which those outside of leisure studies might not even associate with “leisure”(which we might see as hobbies, pastimes, sporting activities and so on). Collectively, these works explore the entanglements of leisure spaces and digital practices as both are put to work in challenging and transforming gender injustices. It is an upbeat book: a shiny jewel in an otherwise dark ocean of ways in which digital spaces can perpetuate misogyny, sexual violence and sexual exploitation (aptly captured in other works such as Powell and Henry, 2017; Hall and Hearn, 2017; Jane, 2016), and big business and capitalist interests continue to drive and shape the technological landscape. This is not to suggest that the authors are …