num_pages: 192
description: A treatise of Black womens transformative influence in media and society placing them front and center in a new chapter of mainstream resistance and political engagementIn Reclaiming Our Space  social worker activist and cultural commentator Feminista Jones explores how Black women are changing culture society and the landscape of feminism by building digital communities and using social media as powerful platforms. As Jones reveals some of the best-loved devices of our shared social media language are a result of Black womens innovations from well-known movement-building hashtags (#BlackLivesMatter #SayHerName and #BlackGirlMagic) to the now ubiquitous use of threaded tweets as a marketing and storytelling tool. For some these online dialogues provide an introduction to the work of Black feminist icons like Angela Davis Barbara Smith bell hooks and the women of the Combahee River Collective. For others this discourse provides a platform for continuing their feminist activism and scholarship in a new interactive way.Complex conversations around race class and gender that have been happening behind the closed doors of academia for decades are now becoming part of the wider cultural vernacularone pithy tweet at a time. With these important online conversations not only are Black women influencing popular culture and creating sociopolitical movements; they are also galvanizing a new generation to learn and engage in Black feminist thought and theory and inspiring change in communities around them.Hard-hitting intelligent incisive yet bursting with humor and pop-culture savvy Reclaiming Our Space is a survey of Black feminisms past present and future and it explains why intersectional movement building will save us all.
language: English
title: Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets
publisher: Beacon Press