{"id":8130,"date":"2023-10-08T14:38:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T18:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=8130"},"modified":"2023-10-09T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T20:24:59","slug":"young-gifted-black-and-online-afroswedish-feminist-technologies-of-blackness","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/young-gifted-black-and-online-afroswedish-feminist-technologies-of-blackness\/","title":{"rendered":"Young, Gifted, Black, and Online: AfroSwedish Feminist Technologies of Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last decade, young black feminists in Sweden have been the originators of online projects and social media platforms that have changed the landscape in terms of discourses of race, blackness, and (popular) culture.\u00a0 Due to their success online, many of these projects have had afterlives in print and performance: they form an archive of millennial black consciousness and its relation to global discourses of black culture, politics, and activism. In January of 2014,\u00a0<i>Rummet<\/i>\u00a0(Space) was launched by four\u00a0<i>rasifierade<\/i>\u00a0(racialized) and queer-identified women in their 20s, the first online platform in Sweden for and by young feminists of color. Given that it was a\u00a0<i>separatisk<\/i>\u00a0or separatist site, in which white Swedes were encouraged to read, but not comment, the site was immediately and enduringly controversial, even considered \u201cracist.\u201d \u00a0This talk investigates the challenge that\u00a0<i>Rummet<\/i>\u00a0and an Instagram platform @<i>SvartKvinna<\/i>\u00a0(Black Woman) made to Swedish feminism and race discourse. By creating digital diasporas, available within Sweden but concerned with \u201cblack\u201d identity more broadly, these projects created new technologies of race and blackness, emplaced within Sweden but connected, sometimes controversially, sometimes vitally, to other geographies.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/young-gifted-black-and-online-afroswedish-feminist-technologies-of-blac-tickets-734244774887?aff=oddtdtcreator\">ATTEND<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Monica L. Miller<\/strong> is Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. A specialist in contemporary African American and Afro-diasporic literature and cultural studies, she is the author of the book\u00a0<i>Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. \u00a0<\/i>A frequent commentator in the media and arts worlds, she teaches and writes about black literature, art, and performance, fashion cultures, and contemporary Black European culture and politics. A grantee from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, she is\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">currently at work on a book project,\u00a0<i>Blackness Swedish Style: Race and the Rhizomatics of Being<\/i>\u00a0which considers cultural production by the emerging black community in Sweden and its connection to black European ide<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">ntity formation and cultural\/political movements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Accessibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-slate-fragment=\"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\">For accessibility needs please email skreitzb@barnard.edu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is an in-person event, free and open to all.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/fall-2022-covid-safety-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-airgap-id=\"45\">Please review our COVID safety guidelines.<\/a>\u00a0Registration is preferred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last decade, young black feminists in Sweden have been the originators of online projects and social media platforms that have changed the landscape in terms of discourses of race, blackness, and (popular) culture.\u00a0 Due to their success online, many of these projects have had afterlives in print and performance: they form an archive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8132,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-8130","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/8130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/8130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8133,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/8130\/revisions\/8133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}