Digital Black Feminism – Catherine Knight Steele (1)

When posting about Brown, she was vigilant about ensuring users could not use her posts to disparage or disrespect him or the people of Ferguson. At one point that year, she removed herself entirely from the media storm and the public pain of racism, announcing she would be leaving her site temporarily and with it the labor of producing anything for anyone but herself.

Ajayi recognized her role in providing thoughtful commentary and hosting a place for people to grieve together, yet she also created firm boundaries to protect herself, insisting that she as a person was as valuable as the work she produced for her community. Digital Black feminists first articulated this dialectic of self and community needs in the blogosphere where they owned “the shops.” This principle now extends beyond the enclaved space of the Black feminist blogosphere.

Since the emergence of #BlackLivesMatter, Black feminist writers and activists like Feminista Jones worked tirelessly to ensure Black women were not erased from social media campaigns, creating hashtags like #YouOKSis.21 The death of Sandra Bland in police custody propelled #SayHerName to the top of Twitter’s trending topics as Black women once again reminded the country that to be a Black woman is to fight for racial justice that often is not extended to us.

When women and gender nonbinary folks saw themselves excluded from #BlackLivesMatter, Black feminist activists online adjusted their strategies. In 2020, when massive protests erupted following the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor, the fight for Black lives again retook center stage after being muted during the authoritarian Trump presidency. When police arrested the men who killed Arbery and the state brought charges against the offers who killed George Floyd, mainstream news outlets shifted coverage away from the ongoing protests.

On digital platforms like TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram, people continued to say the name of Breonna Taylor, insisting she not be forgotten. Black feminists online led protests, wrote op-eds, and petitioned government officials such as Daniel Cameron, the attorney general in Kentucky, who abdicated his responsibility to charge officers for Taylor’s death. Speaking alongside Taylor’s family, activist Tamika Mallory addressed Cameron, a Black man, directly, saying, “You are a coward, you are a sellout, and you were used by the system to harm your own mama.

Your own Black mama.” She went on, “I thought about him saying he’s a Black man.

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