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My issues with this current trend of Black Girl Magic as a form of activism, and the weird political earth-mother intersectional blerd cult that seems to have arisen around this trend, especially on Twitter.
Articles and twitter threads mentioned:
Who Gets to Own “Black Girl Magic” by Clover Hope: http://jezebel.com/who-gets-to-own-black-girl-magic-1793924053
Black Like Mao by Robin D.G. Kelley http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf
Luvvie thread: https://twitter.com/Luvvie/status/854755202238476288
Black PhD’s thread: https://twitter.com/prof_carrington/status/854728891524567040
Thread of Black woman pseudo-worship: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/882719599300685824
Skateboarder and the Black Women thread: https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/865269838700199936
My twitter thread on Black Girl Magic and how it unwittingly plays into the Magical Negro and Mammy stereotypes: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/883681773875601408