A short Muskodus Reading List + some scraps 2022 November 07
Black women / radical media makers are the prototype
The Twitter Woes Cheat Code
A lot of discussion is happening in elite Twitter (100K + users), white professor Twitter, (white) DH Twitter, and in other pockets about the woes of Muskwitter. Many are touting all the amazing things they got from the app.
Let the record show, Black and non-white radical media folks have been talking about the power and perils of Twitter and social media broadly for over a decade. Nothing being said right now is new even if the anxiety some folks are feeling might feel new. And everything about how Black women, Black feminists non-gender specific, radical womyn of color media makers, organizers, activists, and community members use media broadly has already prepared us for what to do in the Muskodus and on Muskwitter.
Which is to say, if you know, you know.
So here’s just a few readings to know more:
Jessica Marie Johnson and Kismet Nuñez, “Alter Egos and Infinite Literacies, Part III: How to Build a Real Gyrl in 3 Easy Steps,” The Black Scholar 45, no. 4 (2015): 47–61.
Sydette Harry, “Everyone Watches, Nobody Sees: How Black Women Disrupt Surveillance Theory,” Model View Culture (blog), accessed January 11, 2017, https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/everyone-watches-nobody-sees-how-black-women-disrupt-surveillance-theory.
I’Nasah Crockett, “‘Raving Amazons’: Antiblackness and Misogynoir in Social Media,” Model View Culture (blog), accessed January 11, 2017, https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/raving-amazons-antiblackness-and-misogynoir-in-social-media.
Moya Bailey, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York: NYU Press, 2021).
Sarah J Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles, “#GirlsLikeUs: Trans Advocacy and Community Building Online,” New Media & Society, June 9, 2017, 1461444817709276, https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444817709276.
Sarah J. Jackson, Brooke Foucault-Welles, Moya Bailey, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2020).
Catherine Knight Steele, Digital Black Feminism (New York: NYU Press, 2021).
André Brock, Jr., Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (NYU Press, 2020).
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico's libraries, archives and museums road to recovery: Puerto Rico's libraries, archives and museums road to recovery: A timeline of events after Hurricane Maria https://scalar.usc.edu/works/prlamrecovery/index
Other Stuff — Reading List
Nan Z. Da, “The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies,” Critical Inquiry 45, no. 3 (March 2019): 601–39, https://doi.org/10.1086/702594.
“Computational Literary Studies: A Critical Inquiry Online Forum,” In the Moment (blog), March 31, 2019, https://critinq.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/computational-literary-studies-a-critical-inquiry-online-forum/.
Whitney Trettien, “Media, Materiality, and Time in the History of Reading: The Case of the Little Gidding Harmonies,” PMLA 133, no. 5 (October 2018): 1135–51, https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2018.133.5.1135.
Lilith Todd, “Building Ephemeral Citational Practices in Student Research Projects,” Teaching Citational Practice: Critical Feminist Approaches 1 (September 4, 2021), https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/citationalpractice/article/view/8657
Allison E. Fagan, From the Edge: Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print (Rutgers University Press), accessed November 2, 2022, https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/from-the-edge/9780813583808/.