"Beyond BAME, WOC, and 'political blackness'": diasporic digital communing practices

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 and Basu, Maitrayee 2023. "Beyond BAME, WOC, and 'political blackness'": diasporic digital communing practices. Communication, Culture & Critique 16 (2) , pp. 91-98. 10.1093/ccc/tcad012

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Abstract

What forms of opacity and excess propel Black and South Asian digital diasporic feminist cultures of commoning and communing? This article explores digital expressions of retreat, refusal, remixing, and reclamation which are central to diasporic feminist practices. We analyze three illustrative digital practices via two vignettes: (1) Quote tweets and digital anonymity as expressions of subaltern excess; (2) diasporic meme culture as a callout praxis of refusal; and (3) digital opacity as feminist retreat and reclamation of time, interiority, and intimacy. Throughout our analysis we incorporate reflections on the contours of “diasporic feminist excess” and the parameters of public, private, and personal spaces. Overall, by extending the vocabularies of feminist commoning to include certain digital diasporic feminist practices, we conceptualize the fluid and fraught ways that contrapublic discourses move in, between, and beyond, digital publics.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	1753-9129
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	5 May 2023
Date of Acceptance:	24 March 2023
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2023 18:39
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159242

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