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Review of Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones

2020; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.28968/cftt.v6i1.32801

2380-3312

Florence Madenga,

Gender, Feminism, and Media

In Reclaiming Our Space, Feminista Jones traces a much-needed accessible history of Black feminist activism online and off, in the age of Twitter and the eras before, and in the United States and beyond.Jones, a queer Black woman, activist, writer, and community organizer, draws her frameworks from many sources, including Black feminist thinkers who would be considered part of the "canon" in academia (e.g., bell hooks, Barbara Smith, Angela Davis, and the voices that were an integral part of the Combahee River Collective of the 1970s), as well as female hiphop icons (from Queen Latifah and Salt-N-Pepa to Lil' Kim and Cardi B).She thinks with fellow Black feminists who are invested in dialogue online and social justice mobilization offline in their communities, and includes snippets and screenshots of exchanges that have led to fruitful collaboration.Jones's book contributes to past and ongoing conversations in media and internet studies: the conceptualizations of Black digital communities.On the "validation" of Black Twitter as a digital community in such a space, Jones marks Dr. Meredith Clark's work as some of the first to "definitively" write about Black Twitter as an online community, with multilevel networking processes and unique cultural dynamics.Jones builds on this conversation by situating Black feminist Twitter's existence in this broader community space as "a subculture" (p.15).