Black Women and Girls Trending: A New(er) Autohistoria-Teoría

As is demonstrated by the contemporary radical feminist project #ThisTweetCalledMyBack, women of color have been leveraging digital spaces to tell their own stories while necessarily resisting white supremacy, misogynoir, anti-blackness, and white feminism. Long after the first print publication of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, women and girls of color are staking claim in digital spaces to re-envision an emancipatory logic whereby gender, race, class hierarchies, and sexual violence are no longer viable threats to liberation. In this chapter, Black women and girls are the focus. I invite readers to notice the ways in which Black women and girls reclaim space across social media platforms and place themselves in their stories and theories. Consider, too, how Black women and girls defy conventional ways of explaining social and cultural phenomena, which at the same time opens up space for others to remember self and community amid white supremacy and gender-based violence....