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A number of efforts are underway to document not just the content created on the platform but how Black women used it for communication and community — along with the abuse they received.
Black social media has often taken the lead in raising public consciousness when mainstream outlets overlook the death or disappearance of Black women.
“We need to get off that perch and really try to understand, try to walk in the other person’s shoes, live as they live, breathe as they breathe, see as they see.”
Despite recent upheaval on the business side, S. Mitra Kalita sees “an opportunity in framing broader stories through the California lens and achieving audience in our state and throughout the world.”