Black android griots. The battery packs of the unhuman. Necromancy in codes, wires, and equations. I’ve had my Twitter account for a few years; however, this year I created my Facebook and Instagram account. Honestly, I was curious but ultimately a bit frightened by social media. As a shy person, I was terrified to create a persona in a nebulous space tethered to invisible faces and all caps. But then Trayvon Martin was killed. Black Lives Matter catalyzed me into studying Digital Cultural Rhetoric–more specifically, in 2013, after the international exposure of Black people killed by the racist violence. Grassroots…
Author: Rachel Dortin
Kimberly Williams
Rachel Dortin is an Assistant Professor of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. Her research interests sit at the nexus of embodiment, community-engaged learning, and theories of difference.