Reclaiming Our Space : How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets

Author: Jones, Feminista
Binding: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pagination: 192 pages
ISBN\EAN: 9780807055373
Weight in grams: 306
Dimensions in mm: 228 x 152 x 15
Description:  treatise of Black women's transformative influence in media, entertainment, and politics, and why this intersectional movement building, especially on Twitter, is essential to the resistance.

In Reclaiming Our Space, social worker, activist, and cultural commentator Feminista Jones explores how Black women are changing culture, society, and the landscape of feminism by building digital communities and using social media as powerful platforms. Complex conversations around race, class, and gender that have been happening behind the closed doors of academia for decades are now becoming part of the wider cultural vernacular--one pithy tweet at a time.

These online platforms have given those outside the traditional university setting an opportunity to engage with and advance these conversations--and in doing so have created new energy for intersectional movements around the world. It has been a seismic shift, and as Jones argues, no one has had more to do with this renaissance of community building than Black women.