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Transmedial Articulations of Blackness and Afrocyberactivism in Spain

Special Session: “Transmedial Articulations of Blackness and Afrocyberactivism in Spain”

2025 MLA Convention, New Orleans, 9-12 January 2025

This special session explores the digital self-positionings of Afro-Spaniards, focusing on the narrative strategies, aesthetic textures, and lived experiences of racialization and (un)belonging explored through online media, such as online magazines, blogs, video channels, podcasts, and more. The session is coordinated by key figures and activist groups of the Afro-Spanish community.

Presiders:

  • Julia Borst (University of Bremen)
  • Jeffrey Coleman (Northwestern University)

Presentations:

  • Julia Borst (University of Bremen): “Digital Archives of Black Knowledge in Spain: Video Interviews on YouTube as Oral History”
  • Oana Katz (Northwestern University): “‘Transcestral’ Poethics: Tracing a Black Trans Feminist Politics in Rioko Fotabon’s Cyberactivism”
  • Alison Posey (Duke University): “Digital Griots: Performing Afrospanish Identity in the Vlogs of Desirée Bela-Lobedde”
  • Alfonso Bartolomé (Virginia State University): “Decolonial Perspective through Asaari Bibang’s Humor in the Digital World”