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Black digital resistance as politics and process

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

How can communities creatively adapt and reshape online practices to forge resilient digital publics?

In episode 162 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews media studies scholar Raven Maragh-Lloyd about the historical contours of Black digital resistance.

Raven is also the author of the new book Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age, which was recently published by the University of California Press. We loved working with Raven on this text and are excited to celebrate it with this episode.

Resistance as ongoing process

In their conversation, Raven and Cathy chat about how digital resistance is best understood as a creative process rather than just an outcome of digital practices and how Black communities create and sustain that process across time periods and platforms.

"Resistance as process helps us to connect and reflect on the past with the present. Black publics have long been showing us the different faces of, for example, oppression for a long time." —Raven Maragh-Lloyd

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Future spaces for resistance

The episode also explores the unique, vital assemblage of Black Twitter and Raven’s take on where Black digital resistance efforts are migrating now to build new worlds.

"Black folks rejuvenate time and time again and across multiple media platforms, whether we're talking about the Black press or we're talking about social network sites." —Raven Maragh-Lloyd

Imagining otherwise

The episode concludes with Raven’s vision for critical hopefulness in digital spaces, a critical hopefulness that reckons with the violences of the past and forges more just futures.

"I want to pay attention and I want to do the work of critiquing things like digital neoliberalism, but I also want to do the work of being hopeful about the present and the future and do the work of hopeful imagination."

—Raven Maragh-Lloyd

Black Networked Resistance

An insightful analysis of how Black technology users adapt and reshape resistance strategies and forge Black publics in the digital age.

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Related books and episodes

This episode and Black Networked Resistance would make a great syllabus addition to courses in Black studies, digital culture, feminist media, and popular culture.

​Our teaching guide has related books and episodes by Ideas on Fire authors to help scholars and students draw connections across geographies and contexts.

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