#BlackGirlMagic is a Triumph of Resilience in Julia Jordan-Zachery’s “Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag”
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In this episode 217, guest hosted by Michele Tracy Berger, a women’s and gender studies professor and an award-winning creative writer and creativity coach, we visit with award-winning author, Julia Jordan-Zachery, editor of and contributor to “Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag: Twenty-First Century Acts of Self-Definition.”
Through a collection of essays and critical analyses, this text explores the offline lived experiences of Black femmes, girls, and women, and how they foster community, counters invisibility, engage in restorative acts, and create spaces for freedom.
From the Foreword, “Hashtag or trademark, personal or collective expression, #BlackGirlMagic is the articulation of the resolve and persistence of Black women and girls to triumph in the face of intersectional oppressions.”
Connect With the Author
About the Author:
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery is professor and chair of the Africana Studies Department at University of North Carolina Charlotte. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on African American women and public policy.
She is also the author of the award-winning book “Black women, cultural images and social policy” (2009 Routledge) and “Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics” (Rutgers University Press, 2017) and number of articles and edited volumes including “Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag” (Arizona University Press, 2019). J
Julia was awarded the Accinno Teaching Award, Providence College (2015-2016). She serves as the President of the Association for Ethnic Studies.
About the Guest Host
Michele Tracy Berger is a women’s and gender studies professor, an award-winning creative writer, a creativity coach and a pug-lover. She is a trustee on board of the North Carolina Writers Network (NCWN) and President-Elect of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
Her main love is writing speculative fiction, though she also is known to write poetry and creative nonfiction, too. Her fiction and nonfiction have been widely published.
She runs an award-winning blog called ‘The Practice of Creativity’Her science fiction novella, “Reenu You” was recently published by Falstaff Books. Much of her work explores psychological horror, especially through issues of race and gender.
Check out her Charlotte Readers Podcast episode HERE.
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