...), this section of the text outlines the author’s positionality and considers the complexities of representing Black girls’ digital content against an anti-Black, heteropatriarchal gaze. digital methodologies digital ethics digital Blackness ...

... digital methodologies digital ethics digital Blackness ...

... of #1000BlackGirlBooks, and the curators of the Art Hoe Collective. These three activist efforts encapsulate the key tenets of Black time and help expound upon the relationship between BGA, Black girls’ digital practices, and time. The chapter argues that Black girl autopoetics, as it manifests in Black girls’ digital...

... Black girlhood studies Black girl autopoetics Black feminist theory digital Blackness ...

... The book begins by defining Black girl autopoetics as a creative praxis of self-making. Using Sylvia Wynter’s formulations of poesis and autopoiesis, the introduction offers social and historical context to Black girls’ digital content and presents Black girl autopoetics as both a theory...

... Chapter 1 highlights the function of Black girl autopoetics as a space-making technology. Using ethnographic data from Black girls in Richmond, Virginia, the chapter theorizes Black girls’ geographies through the inextricability of their digital content, physical environments, and worldviews...

... Moving from a discussion of how girls make spaces, chapter 2 demonstrates how the spaces that Black girls have created have allowed informal archives of Black life to materialize. Connecting Black girls’ digital image-making to traditions of Black vernacular photography and videography along...

... Black time digital activism Black girl activists ...

... digitality diaspora blackness ethnography media anthropology ...

... Black girl geographies digital geographies social media ...

... self-curation digital archives social media Black image-making ...

... Black joy Afrofuturism digital humanities mixed methods human-computer interaction ...

... Currently, geography offers few original terms to spotlight the meaningful interactions between race, place, and taste: how Blackness travels as a global cultural identity through digital technology. Using multiple methods, this chapter mines and maps a three-year longitudinal dataset of over...

..., memory, representation, and time. Looking at how Black girls deploy Black girl autopoetics in their digital practices offers insight into ways of creating alternative spaces, narratives, and temporalities in the face of white supremacist attempts at Black erasure. The conclusion urges us to listen...

... moment. digitality diaspora blackness ethnography media anthropology ...