Event
MARC Workshop
Leslie Jones, Penn Sociology Ph.D. Candidate; "Toward an Intellectual Genealogy of Digitally Enabled Black Feminism"
In this presentation, Jones will situate Black cyberfeminism on Twitter within a history of Black technoculturalinnovation. Building on three years of participant observation as well her own archive of Twitter screenshots and scraped tweets, she asserts that there is a distinct and powerful Black cyberfeminist counterpublic on Twitter. Ultimately, Jones argues that Black cyberfeminists are the theoretical vanguard of a popular intersectional feminism.