Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Jared Matthew Wright's Article Titled "Black lives matter and say her name: How intersectional solidarity strengthens movements for social justice"
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The article Dr. Jared Matthew Wright co-authored titled "Black lives matter and say her name: How intersectional solidarity strengthens movements for social justice", was published in the journal Politics, Groups, and Identities.
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Abstract
What happens when social movements try to address internal inequalities that define marginalized identity groups? Do internal efforts to redress the marginalization of particular subgroups within activist ranks undermine broader relations of solidarity? While some commentators believe that recognizing differences can lead to fragmentation within social movements, ultimately weakening them; advocates for intersectional solidarity believe that it strengthens movements. We address this debate by analyzing retweet networks on Twitter (now X) over three discrete time periods to examine the impact of the #SayHerName campaign, which called attention to the intersectional marginalization of Black women, on the #BlackLivesMatter movement’s online discourse. Our analysis is based on the perspective that discourse on public social media platforms constitutes a crucial aspect of contemporary social movements like Black Lives Matter. We find that the introduction of the #SayHerName campaign increased network density among users of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, and that even after #SayHerName declined, the #BlackLivesMatter network was denser and more connected that it had been prior to the initiation of #SayHerName. We conclude that in this case, there is no indication that separate organizing around intersectionally marginalized identities fragments or weakens social movements’ online networks.Keywords
Intersectional solidarity, Social movements, #SayHerName, #BlackLivesMatter, Social networks