What's the Connection Between Blackness and the Internet?

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We've talked about your work on glitch feminism, but you're also working on a new book called black meam. i want to kind of contecturalize really what a black name is by going further back from 19 hundred and working our way to present day. I think oftentimes when people think about the language of the black being, right, it has been personified and embodied rit. And so this idea of what it is to go viro is something that extends beyond ticta.

Paris Marx is joined by Legacy Russell to discuss how glitch feminism challenges existing ideas of what constitutes the body and the effects of having those conceptions embedded within our technological systems.

Legacy Russell is the associate curator of exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and will become executive director and chief curator of The Kitchen in September. She’s the author of “Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto” and is currently writing “Black Meme.” Follow Legacy on Twitter as @LegacyRussell.

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