Blackout Tuesday x Platformization

Material Girls

Rehak Hannah

Harry Potter, Books, Vanessa Zoltan, Hannah Mcgregor, Not Sorry, Tv & Film, Aubrey Gordon, Cultural Cricism, Pop Culture, Marcelle Kosman, Witch Please, Feminism, Fantasy, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

At Material Girls, we’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of using social media for social change and what those calls imply about the role of social media in our collective imaginations. And so, in the spirit of always historicizing, we recorded this episode to look back on the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 and, specifically, to an online event known as Blackout Tuesday.

If you were one of the people who posted a black square on your Instagram account — or someone who thought about it but didn't — this episode is for you! Hannah offers some really helpful insight pulling on Jia Tolentino's essay, "The I in Internet," the work of sociologist Irving Goffman, Montreal-based scholar Kelsey Blair and Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein. Together, Hannah and Marcelle dig into what it means that our social media tools, regardless of how they are used, are corporately-owned.

To learn more about Hannah's research for this episode and to read Witch, Please Productions' statement on Israel and Palestine, head to https://ohwitchplease.substack.com/.

And, if you like our show, please share it with family and friends! Word-of-mouth is the primary way we reach new listeners who are interested in feminist materialist critique, pop culture and laughing at and from within *the discourse.*

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Material Girls is a new show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.

We'll be back in two weeks for another episode, but until then, be sure to check out all the bonus content we have on our Patreon at Patreon.com/ohwitchplease. You can learn more about the show at ohwitchplease.ca and on our instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Want more from us? Check out our website ohwitchplease.ca.

*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment.

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0:00.0	We don't treat ourselves with a meal out.
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0:50.0	Hello and welcome to material girls a scholarly podcast about popular
0:56.7	culture I'm Hannah McGregor and I'm Marcel Kossman and today we're taking a slightly less whimsical than usual turn to talk about
1:06.4	something close to both of our hearts, using the internet to try to do social change.
1:13.0	So tricky.
1:15.0	That's a tricky one.
1:17.0	So we have been thinking a lot, you know, I think separately and collectively,
1:22.0	about calls for public statements in response to ongoing
1:26.1	violence in Palestine and alongside figuring out what our own actions are going to be again as
1:32.2	individuals and as a team. We've also been talking about the idea of using
1:37.0	social media for social change and what those calls for public statements imply about the role of social media in our collective imagination.
1:48.0	And so, in the spirit of always historicizing. We're looking back to understand the present moment and in this case we're looking back to 2020 and the Black Lives Matter protests and specifically to an online event known as Blackout Tuesday.
2:06.7	Do you remember?
2:08.7	I also remember.
2:10.7	I was one of those people who posted a black square and then unposted that
2:14.2	black square within the same day. Same. Yeah but before we dive into the
2:20.3	specific details of just what Blackout Tuesday was, Marcel, I want you to tell me about your earliest
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