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How are Black feminist approaches to digital experiences and archiving practices shaping Black history and futures? How do these archival approaches enable Black feminists to play with forms of opacity in ways that subvert the gaze of institutions? Can Black feminist digital archiving efforts result in a redefinition of what it means to archive? Focusing on aspects of Black feminist digital archiving experiences, and research on Black Scottish history, this session considers the role and pursuit of forms of opacity as part of such efforts. Moving beyond a focus on questions of visibility and publicness, this session involves an emphasis on elements of the interiority of Black feminist digital archiving work, including the generative nature of refusing demands of "transparency".
Dr Francesca Sobande is a senior lecturer in digital media studies at Cardiff University. She is the author of The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Consuming Crisis: Commodifying Care and COVID-19 (SAGE, 2022). Francesca is also co-editor with Akwugo Emejulu of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019), and is co-author with layla-roxanne hill of Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland (Bloomsbury, 2022).
This event is hosted by the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab and will take place as part of the course COMS 472/521 Communication Technologies and Gender, with the support of Concordia’s Department of Communication Studies.