(I.) I have been very invested in the story of #JalaiahHarmon @_.xoxlaii , the 14-year-old girl from metro Atlanta that made up the #Renegade dance that several people have gone viral doing without crediting her. The story has been of particular interest to me because not only did certain of those folk go viral but they received financial gain and promotion for doing something that nobody ever stopped to ask - where did this come from? (II.) Today I saw this #anthropology account that I follow on twitter say that “We argue that collaborative writing must be reconceptualized as a #feminist methodology that tackles issues of power & knowledge production” 🥴. This tweet tickled and annoyed me because when I see folk saying words without thinking, "Has anyone else thought this? If so, let me go look for their work and cite them instead of trying to sound profound." (III.) Jalaiah posted a video of her and the two main girls that got schmoney and fame for doing her dance on her IG. She taught them the original version and seems genuinely happy to share this space with them. They're young girls. They don't know anything but what white supremacy teaches them so they didn't know they should cite their sources. But also, how generous of Jalaiah to share this space with them when they, to this point, still haven't cited her as the creator (One of them tagged her in an IG story and called her the OG. She is not the OG. She is the author and the creator. She is not "participating" in this dance craze. #SheBegatThis. (There is a difference). (IV.) All of this is a set up to talk about (a) #Womanism and (b) my patreon post for today on black faith. (a) Womanism will save us because collaborative knowledge creation is embedded in the origin of this #sociopolitical/#spiritual-#religious practice towards gender|racial equality. Get tickets to my lecture series (#Chicago, #LA, #Berkeley coming up) at www.ebonyjanice.com/womanismlecture <-Get info on how to bring me to your city here as well. (b) In todays post I'm explaining the inherently #collaborative nature of #blackwomen/#blackfaith and knowledge production. www.patreon.com/ebonyjanice #TheFreePeopleProject (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8sGSLRJL0H/?igshid=ixo5iqxbewp3
