Paper short abstract:

In moving their discriminating experiences to online spaces, Black women digitalised intersectionality, resistance and empowerment, birthing Black cyberfeminism & highlighting misogynoir manifestations in hashtags like #SayHerName, #FastTailedGirls, #NotYourMami, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, & #MMIW

Paper long abstract:

With the expansion of digital space, Black women's historical legacy of activism found itself catapulted into are a digital Jim Crow, a new incarnation of the same oppression techniques that have afflicted black communities throughout history. Through their visual, textual, and oral narratives, Black women's digital praxis is influenced by the radical legacy of Anna Julia Cooper, Sojourner Truth, and other women. Due to the twin kinds of exclusion and oppression that Black women face regularly, Anna Cooper creates a unique concept of social justice tenfold more valid for Black women than anyone else. The panel aims to demonstrate how Black women's activism used digital technology as a catalyst for feminist concerns making Black women pioneers of virtual feminisms and Black feminist philosophy which gave birth to Black cyberfeminism. By translating and representing their physical realities into digital experiences Black women increased the perspective of intersectional awareness and demonstrated degrees of ongoing resistance and empowerment. Individual and collective manifestations of misogynoir were highlighted in form of social media hashtags like #SayHerName, #FastTailedGirls, #NotYourAsianSidekick, #NotYourMami, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and #MMIW.