Badass Feminist Politics explores gender, difference, feminist methods, stigma, social movements, mediated communication, intersectional feminist theory and pedagogy. It is a testament to resilience, resistance, and forward thinking about what these themes mean for new feminist agendas.

1 IntroductionSARAH JANE BLITHE AND JANELL C. BAUER2 Badass Activities for Threading Together Theory, Pedagogy, and ActivismJANELL C. BAUER AND SARAH JANE BLITHEPart I Black Lives Matter: Research and Reflections3 Being Black in the Ivory: Telling Our Truth and Taking Up SpaceANGELA N. GIST-MACKEY, ASHLEY R. HALL, AND SHARDÉ M. DAVIS4 #BlackIndigenousStoriesMatterANITA MIXON5 Your Black Friends Are TiredANDREA EWING6 Inciting Change with My Keyboard: Leveraging Hashtag Activism to Fight Anti-Black Racism during COVID-19SHARDÉ M. DAVIS7 The Reality of Our Dreams: Black Lives’ FearsPRISCA S. NGONDO8 Black Women in Black Lives Matter: Navigating Being Both Engaged and DismissedCERISE L. GLENN9 Antiracist Holistic Change in “STEM” Higher EducationMELANIE DUCKWORTH AND KELLY J. CROSS10 Fighting for Black Studies: An Essay about Educational EmpowermentIDRISSA N. SNIDER11 When You Can’t Call the Cops: Intimate Partner Violence and #BlackLivesMatterREBECCA MERCADO JONES AND JAYNA MARIE JONES12 Discovering Your Social Justice Gift amid the Distraction of Systemic RacismSIOBHAN E. SMITH-JONES AND JOHNNY JONES13 Sexuality in My Reality: An Autoethnography of a Black Woman’s Resistance of Sexual StereotypesSAVAUGHN WILLIAMS14 The Forgotten Ones (for Those Who Survive Black Death)ROBIN M. BOYLORN15 Performative Activism: Inauthentic Allyship in the Midst of a Racial PandemicTINA M. HARRISPart II Narrating the Material Body16 Nevertheless, She Feels Pretty: A Critical Co-constructed Autoethnography on Fat Persistence and ResistanceCASSIDY D. ELLIS AND SARAH GONZALEZ NOVEIRI17 Visual Activism, Persistence, and Identity: Ostomy Selfies as a Form of Resistance to Dominant Body IdeologiesRUTH J. BEERMAN AND MICHAEL S. MARTIN18 The Silence of LaughterLYDIA HUERTA MORENOPart III Living Feminist Politics in Mediated Environments19 Mónica Robles: (De?)colonizing Mexican Womanhood through the Power of MemesANA GOMEZ PARGA20 Smart Talk: Feminist Communication Questions for Artificial IntelligenceMAUREEN EBBEN AND CHERIS KRAMARAE21 The Silencing of Elizabeth Warren: A Case of Digital PersistenceKATHLEEN RUSHFORTHPart IV New Feminist Theorizing22 Social Justice Organizing through the Closet MetaphorJAMES McDONALD AND SARA DeTURK23 Disrupting the Ratchet-Respectable Binary: Explorations of Ratchet Feminism and Ratchet Respectability in Daily and Popular LifeDANETTE M. PUGH- PATTON AND ANTONIO L. SPIKES24 Afrofuturist Lessons in PersistenceJENNA N. HANCHEYAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIndex