What Can Feminism Learn from New Media?

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size

Notes

[1] Sydette Harry, “Loving ‘Beyoncé’ as a Black Woman: The Power of Identification in an Age of Appropriation,” Salon (2013), http://www.salon.com/2013/12/16/loving_beyonce_as_a_black_woman_the_power_of_identification_in_an_age_of_appropriation/; Sydette Harry, “Not All Millennials Are White and Privileged!,” Salon (2013), http://www.salon.com/2013/10/18/not_all_millennials_are_white_and_privileged/; Lauren Chief Elk and Lauren Wolfe, “Sexual Violence Is Tearing Native American Communities Apart,” The Guardian (2012), http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/08/sexual-violence-native-american-communities.

[2] Chief Elk, “An Open Letter to Eve Ensler,” Life Returned, http://chiefelk.tumblr.com/post/49527456060/an-open-letter-to-eve-ensler (accessed May 13, 2013).

[3] Flavia Dzodan, “The Histories of Feminisms of Color Do Not Come in Waves,” Red Light Politics, http://www.redlightpolitics.info/post/73309750850/the-histories-of-feminisms-of-color-do-not-come-in (accessed January 14, 2014).

[4] “Call and response patterns, developed in spirituals and play and work songs, are related to the group or communal nature of art; these patterns both value improvisation and demand that new meanings be created for each particular moment. The valuing of these characteristics suggests that importance lies not only in what is said, but also in how it is said. The assumption is that a story will be repeated and will change with every telling, and that the success of the telling, and so of the particular story, resides not so much in its similarity to the original as in its individual nuances and its ability to involve others.” Maggie Sale, “Call and Response as Critical Method: African-American Oral Traditions and Beloved,” African American Review 26, issue 1 (1992): 42; Smitherman identifies (among other things) verbal performance, brevity and “collective ritual” as essential elements of “where Black people are at,” characteristics that fit Twitter quite well. Geneva Smitherman, Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1977), 180.

[5] Moya Z. Bailey, “All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave,” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, issue 1 (2011), http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/all-the-digital-humanists-are-white-all-the-nerds-are-men-but-some-of-us-are-brave-by-moya-z-bailey/.