Summary: 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.<br> <br> Articles and twitter threads mentioned:<br> <br> Who Gets to Own "Black Girl Magic" by Clover Hope: <a href="http://jezebel.com/who-gets-to-own-black-girl-magic-1793924053">http://jezebel.com/who-gets-to-own-black-girl-magic-1793924053</a><br> <br> Black Like Mao by Robin D.G. Kelley <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf</a><br> <br> Luvvie thread: <a href="https://twitter.com/Luvvie/status/854755202238476288">https://twitter.com/Luvvie/status/854755202238476288</a><br> <br> Black PhD's thread: <a href="https://twitter.com/prof_carrington/status/854728891524567040">https://twitter.com/prof_carrington/status/854728891524567040</a><br> <br> Thread of Black woman pseudo-worship: <a href="https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/882719599300685824">https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/882719599300685824</a><br> <br> Skateboarder and the Black Women thread: <a href="https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/865269838700199936">https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/865269838700199936</a><br> <br> My twitter thread on Black Girl Magic and how it unwittingly plays into the Magical Negro and Mammy stereotypes: <a href="https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/883681773875601408">https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/883681773875601408</a><br> <br>
