Why Violence Goes Viral: A Thread in Six Parts
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THE MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES has grown during the pandemic. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are shaping so many people’s sense of racial justice. The problem is, social media is a technology of the white gaze. It feeds off of racial violence; killings go viral. Hooked to our phones, we circulate and cycle through Black death.
We need more life. Asian Americans in particular need strategies for demanding recognition beyond the schema of racial violence especially so our visibility does not form at the expense of Black people.
In this essay, I turn the gaze onto non-Black people who make a show of looking at Black death. I close read the viral discourse compiled by #AhmaudArbery. I examine social media virality itself and surface the contradictions that organize discourse about racial justice.
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The first cohort of the 2021 Empowered Women honorees, including Iman, Valeisha Butterfield-Jones and Fadia Kader, are announced in celebration of International Women’s Day
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“It is an honor to continue to build and strengthen the ‘Empowered Women’ platform alongside Culture Creators and ELLE Magazine,” says Ingrid Best, Vice President of Global Marketing, Spirits, Combs Enterprises. LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) March 08, 2021 Today, CÎROC and Combs Enterprises are proud to announce the continuation of its Empowered Women platform. Empowered Women, first launched in 2016 by Combs Enterprises’ women-led executive team, uplifts, spotlights, and raises a glass to honor an eclectic and dynamic group of entrepreneurs, creatives, and businesswomen.