Black Lives Matter: It All Started with Facebook

The Squad: A Not-So-Accidental Political Sensation

Welcome back to The Ways She Moves: a podcast focused on discussing female-led political movements. This episode we covered "The Squad." Who are they? How did they become so infamous? What effects have they had, both as individuals and as a collective unofficial movement, on the political, social, and cultural realms of American society? Honestly, this episode was a blast, and I enjoyed making it. Enjoy! Sources from this Episode: Frances M. Beale, Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female, 1969. Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism, 2020. Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles, Hashtag Activism, 2020. Martha Jones, Vanguard, 2020.  Norah Bowman, Meg Braem, and Dominique Hui, Amplify: Graphic Narratives of Feminist Resistance, 2019.  Google Trends, https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-11-03%202020-12-02&geo=US&q=the%20squad [//] USA Today, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/24/aoc-response-ted-yoho-read-text-rep-ocasio-cortezs-speech/5500633002/ [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/24/aoc-response-ted-yoho-read-text-rep-ocasio-cortezs-speech/5500633002/] Vox, https://www.vox.com/2019/7/17/20696474/squad-congresswomen-trump-pressley-aoc-omar-tlaib [https://www.vox.com/2019/7/17/20696474/squad-congresswomen-trump-pressley-aoc-omar-tlaib] Twitter, https://twitter.com/hashtag/thesquad?lang=en [https://twitter.com/hashtag/thesquad?lang=en] CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/who-are-the-squad/index.html [https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/who-are-the-squad/index.html] The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/opinion/the-squad-democrats.html [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/opinion/the-squad-democrats.html] The Hill, https://thehill.com/homenews/media/519492-the-squad-responds-to-twitter-warning-for-posts-threatening-bodily [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/519492-the-squad-responds-to-twitter-warning-for-posts-threatening-bodily] Vanity Fair, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/the-squad-donald-trump [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/the-squad-donald-trump] Video Clips (in chronological order): FOX News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMEeaJP-LLc [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMEeaJP-LLc]  CNN, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdWxOtSrDoo&t=13s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdWxOtSrDoo&t=13s]  FOX News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rATLOoadP7c [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rATLOoadP7c]  Late Night with Seth Meyers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYqelKm5nqA [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO1RuRG9XOA] CBS News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29J8Xjh11lY [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29J8Xjh11lY] NBC News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSZcdMCHn2o [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSZcdMCHn2o]  NowThis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG2sgYhNR6o [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG2sgYhNR6o]

Black Lives Matter: It All Started with Facebook

Hello! And welcome to the very first episode of The Ways She Moves. A podcast focused on discussing female-led political movements and their impact on our country's political climate.  This episode, we cover the Black Lives Matter movement and its monumental success since its inception in 2013. We discuss how it started all because of three black women on Facebook, how the movement has taken off on social media and how social media has helped Black Lives Matter, and I share some audio clips with you as I journeyed to a local Black Lives Matter vigil near me and spoke to some folks there.* Enjoy! Sources from this Episode: Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism, 2020 Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles, Hashtag Activism, 2020.  Black Lives Matter's Home Website, https://blacklivesmatter.com [//] The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html [//] The Anti-Defamation League, https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/black-lives-matter-from-hashtag-to-movement [//] BBC News, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53273381 [//] *All audio clips of interviews in this episode are mine