FROM #HASHTAGS TO MOVEMENTS:
Performance, Collective Narrative and Erasure, A Black Feminist Perspective

2019 | workshop

Collaborators | ​
Brooke Bosley (Georgia Tech)
Takeria Blunt (Georgia Tech)
Dr. Susana Morris (Georgia Tech)
Dr. Brandeis Marshall (Spelman College)

National Women’s Studies Association 2019 Accepted Workshop
Recipient of GVU Center, Research & Engagement Grant Award 2019

From #hashtags to Movements: Performance, Collective Narrative and Erasure, a Black Feminist Perspective focuses our attention on Black women’s presence in constructing and leading digital social movements which have consistently had to battle misrepresentation and erasure. By centering the critical discussion on Black women’s perspective, we can better understand the issues of social movements that evolve from digital hashtags and the susceptibility that they, and more broadly digital technology, have to erasing the experiences and cultural expression of particular groups. The workshop opens the conversation, making the black female experience visible so that we may understand how these movements can resist perpetuating technological assumptions that suppress cultural diversity.