Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. 1 Introduction 1
4. 2 Badass Activities for Threading Together Theory, Pedagogy, and Activism 14
5. Part 1 Black Lives Matter
6. Introduction 31
7. 3 Being Black in the Ivory: Telling Our Truth and Taking Up Space 35
8. 4 #BlackIndigenous StoriesMatter 42
9. 5 Your Black Friends Are Tired 47
10. 6 Inciting Change with My Keyboard: Leveraging Hashtag Activism to Fight Anti-Black Racism during COVID-19 50
11. 7 The Reality of Our Dreams: Black Lives’ Fears 56
12. 8 Black Women in Black Lives Matter: Navigating Being Both Engaged and Dismissed 62
13. 9 Antiracist Holistic Change in “STEM” Higher Education 68
14. 10 Fighting for Black Studies: An Essay about Educational Empowerment 74
15. 11 When You Can’t Call the Cops: Intimate Partner Violence and #BlackLivesMatter 80
16. 12 Discovering Your Social Justice Gift amid the Distraction of Systemic Racism 82
17. 13 Sexuality in My Reality: An Autoethnography of a Black Woman’s Resistance of Sexual Stereotypes 88
18. 14 The Forgotten Ones (for Those Who Survive Black Death) 93
19. 15 Performative Activism: Inauthentic Allyship in the Midst of a Racial Pandemic 97
20. Part 2 Narrating the Material Body
21. Introduction 103
22. 16 Nevertheless, She Feels Pretty: A Critical Co-constructed Autoethnography on Fat Persistence and Resistance 107
23. 17 Visual Activism, Persistence, and Identity: Ostomy Selfies as a Form of Resistance to Dominant Body Ideologies 126
24. 18 The Silence of Laughter 145
25. Part 3 Living Feminist Politics in Mediated Environments
26. Introduction 167
27. 19 Mónica Robles: (De?)colonizing Mexican Womanhood through the Power of Memes 171
28. 20 Smart Talk: Feminist Communication Questions for Artificial Intelligence 194
29. 21 The Silencing of Elizabeth Warren: A Case of Digital Persistence 215
30. Part 4 New Feminist Theorizing
31. Introduction 237
32. 22 Social Justice Organizing through the Closet Metaphor 241
33. 23 Disrupting the Ratchet-Respectable Binary: Explorations of Ratchet Feminism and Ratchet Respectability in Daily and Popular Life 256
34. 24 Afrofuturist Lessons in Persistence 276
35. Acknowledgments 293
36. Notes on Contributors 295
37. Index 301