Birthing a Digital Diaspora — Panel
PANEL DESCRIPTION:
Birthing a Digital Diaspora: Virtual Gathering and Digital Institutions in the Age of Social Media is a conversation between panelists Dr. Jaimee Swift founder of Black Women Radicals and The School for Black Feminist Politics and Naj Austin founder of Ethels Club and Somewhere Good, moderated by Taylar Shirley during the second annual International Black Writers Festival hosted by the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and Center for Democracy and Journalism at Howard University.
Taking a cue from the overall festival theme “Why We Gather”, the conversations explores what it looks like, feels like, and means for the future of our people to gather in the digital world and how our collective cultures have shaped or been shaped by this technological & aquarian age.