using social media and intersectional feminism for transformative education and personal
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Digital Feminism: Using Social Media and Intersectional Feminism for Transformative
Education and Personal Education
Briana Barner, MA & doc student Beth Bukoski, PhD NASPA Conference
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Overview Digital Feminist Activity
Theories guiding our work
Black Feminism
Hip Hop Feminism
Transformative Education
Digital Feminist Classroom
Examples
Interactive Stations
Q&A
Opening Activity
Opening Activity THINK-PAIR-SHARE
What did you read/hear about/experience regarding the Women’s March?
How did digital sources (news, memes, twitter, instagram, reddit, etc.) shape your perceptions of the march?
More specifically, how did digital sources challenge the way you thought of or experienced the march or helped transform your experience of the march?
Theories Guiding our Work
Black Feminism As Social Justice Project (Patricia Hill Collins)
If Black feminism were reaching a broad constituency of African American women, one would assume that African American girls, the next generation of Black feminist intellectual leaders, would know about it and value its contributions tions to bettering their lives. Yet African American women and girls, the population on whose behalf Black feminism emerged and whose lives were supposed to be changed by this work, typically remain remarkably unaware of Black feminism. Moreover, if they have even heard of Black feminism, they reject it. In this context, I have become increasingly concerned about who exactly gets to develop Black feminist ideas as well as who has access to those ideas.
Hip Hop Feminism “A cultural, intellectual, and political movement grounded in the situated knowledge of women of color from the post–civil rights or hip-hop generation who recognize culture as a pivotal site for political intervention to challenge, resist, and mobilize collectives to dismantle systems of exploitation” (Aisha Durham, Joan Morgan and Patricia Hill Collins) Hip Hop Feminism is interested in practicing public pedagogy
Social media makes this easier
Transformative Education Theory - Rejection of traditional banking model of education
- Focuses on sense-making, or interpreting and re-interpreting
- Three dimensions:
- Psychological changes (changes in understanding of the self)
- Convictional changes (belief systems or epistemology)
- Behavioral changes (lifestyle)
- Commonalities with
- Androgogy
- Experiential Learning
- Self-authorship
- Growth Mindset
Digital Feminist Classroom - Definition: Extension of the physical classroom (or university)
- Democratizing effect
- Engagement imperative
- Self work requires constant …. (spoiler: work!)
- Strengths
- Online
- Semi-accessible
- Allows for collaboration and amplification possible
- Weaknesses
- Not fully accessible
- Inhabits pockets
- Requires constant effort and work to continue meaningful engagement
Examples
#WhatDigitalHumanitiesLooksLike: “You Can’t Win” (for #TrayvonMartin)” Michael Jackson and the Black Performance Archive course at Duke University (Mark Anthony Neal)
Stations Participants will travel from station to station (not getting to all of them), and will remain at each for about 4 minutes: station 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 1. Write your ideas legibly on the butcher paper so we can share them at the end of the rotation.
Station 1: How can pop culture contribute to continued self exploration and awareness?
Station 2: What was your introduction to feminism?
Station 3: How can you implement social media in your work or class?
Station 4: What are some examples of progressive feminist social media?
Facilitated Q&A
Thank You! Briana Barner, MA
Beth Bukoski, PhD [email protected]
Additional Resources: http://bit.ly/2mUsGh6