Did I mention I wrote a book? An important grad school hack that I learned after grad school is that you can and should listen to authors talk about their books via book talks! I’m still angling for a Misogynoir Transformed C-SPAN appearance but in the interim, please enjoy this conversation I had with Lee…
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Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!
Two in-person events were transformed into Zoom panels and they were wonderful! We also got to do one talk, our first book talk for #HashtagActivism. The first was with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. I talked about Caster Semenya and the undue burden placed on Black women athletes when it comes to…
#GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online by Sarah J Jackson, Moya Bailey, Brooke Foucault Welles
Excited this piece is out! In this research, we examine the advocacy and community building of transgender women on Twitter through methods of network and discourse analysis and the theory of networked counterpublics. By highlighting the network structure and discursive meaning making of the #GirlsLikeUs network, we argue that the digital labor of trans women,…
SWAG Diplomacy
I’ve always loved building things. When I was a kid I used to have Dream Builders, which were essentially Legos for girls that were pastel pink and purple. I loved to build structures and pull them apart. As I recall, the sets steered you towards building “girly” structures like nurseries, and “playgrounds too, a building…
Media Make Change Interview!
I’ve been in the (e)news again! This time, it was a two part interview with Tara Conley of the fabulous Media Make Change Organization. You can check out parts 1 and 2 here. Here’s a little bit of what I had to say about the Digital Humanities: …I think that’s why Digital Humanities is a…
Queer, Black Geeks, Unite!
I got to do an awesome interview with long time community friend and newly minted QWOC Wire Writer Tiffany Y. Ates about my involvement with Shawty Got Skillz! Digital humanities dissident, Moya Bailey, has sculpted a yellow brick road in cyberspace for women of color. This summer she will travel to Detroit, along with her…
Thoughts on THATCamp CHNM!
I had the good fortune to attend THATCamp CHNM last week and it was awesome!!! After a day long English language nerd field trip, I arrived at THATCamp CHNM. The workshops offered were wonderful and I’m super confident about my Omeka and newly acquired Viewshare skills. I particularly enjoyed the mobile apps workshop which made something seemingly…
All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave
My “conversation” in the inaugural Journal of Digital Humanities is live! Special thanks to Natalia Cecire for the invitation! Following a fascinating talk by Ed Finn on the changing role and source of literary criticism in a digital age, Natalia Cecire queried the implicit neutrality of a term like “nerd.” Melissa Harris-Perry’s reclamation aside, the racialized and gendered aspects…
DH for the People!
My session idea for THATCampSE: I’m really excited about the types of DH projects university folks are creating. I’m also curious about discussing more applied DH projects that meet community needs and serve people beyond university walls. Universities have notoriously contentious community relations and it seems like more intentional collaborative outreach could help. If communities…
Black Thought 2.0 Conference April 6-7 @Duke
I’m super geeked to be presenting at the Duke University Black Thought 2.0 Conference April 7 at 1: 30 pm. I’ll be repping the Crunk Feminist Collective and paneling with the wonder twin, Alexis Pauline Gumbs. They also have me listed as a Ph.D. which is simultaneously motivating and terrifying. Conference organizers will be live streaming and tweeting the event…