Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 12:00pm
Williams Hall, Room 080
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies with Africana Studies (NEH)
Virtual Lecture Series
"Digital Goddesses and Punany Power: Black Women, the Erotic, and Spiritual YOUpowerment"
Elonda Clay (Vrije, Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Join us for a lecture by Elonda Clay (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) on how US black women utilize social networking and file-sharing platforms to affirm and celebrate the Divine Black Feminine and black womanhood, and in the process participate in spiritual YOUpowerment, a form of peer-to-peer digital practice and thealogical counter-narrative from black women.
Clay’s latest project, and the topic of this lecture, is on black goddesses in the digital sphere and how the affordances of new media technology are shaping networked digital discourses on black goddesses. She provides critical analysis of the digitized religious visual culture
circulating around black goddesses, drawing from Black cyberfeminist and cyberwomanist thought, goddess studies, gender, media, and religion, and critical digital humanities. The Black Goddess Rising Digital Archive, https://blackgoddessrising.com, is an example of a black cyberfeminist/cyberwomanist theoretical and methodological intervention into digital humanities that archives representations of a re-imagined divine feminine and features the online discourses of underrepresented women.
Lunch will be served.
Department:
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies