Black Girl Autopoetics

“With Black Girl Autopoetics Ashleigh Greene Wade gives us a mechanism to witness the creativity embedded in Black girls’ survival strategies and digital social lives. She brilliantly readjusts our framework to focus on Black girlhood as a site of digital exploration, innovation, and creativity. Black girls teach us how to play with the digital through an interrogation of visibility, spatiality, activism, and self-presentation. This is a must-read for anyone invested in reimagining our digital future.” - Catherine Knight Steele, author of Digital Black Feminism

“Black Girl Autopoetics is incredibly important for Black girlhood studies; it will be the go-to book on Black girls’ digital expression. As Ashleigh Greene Wade points out, the dominant paradigm of Black girls’ use of digital media is too often enveloped in panic and mania. Here, she helps us understand how Black girls use media to navigate structures of oppression as they engage their imaginations. Black Girl Autopoetics will help create more life-affirming possibilities for Black girls to be in and move through the world with full access to their creative energies.” - Ruth Nicole Brown, author of Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood

"Ashleigh Greene Wade . . . writes a fascinating book examining the intersection of Black girlhood and digital arts. She argues that Black girls who express themselves creatively in the digital sphere are exposed to the trauma of cyberbullying and harassment as they become hyper-visible, yet at the same time, seldom receive credit for their digital intellectual property and are rendered invisible." - Jordannah Elizabeth, New York Amsterdam News