A Poem.
It's strange that social media can be used to rewrite narratives.
I landed on making a poem and its accompanying visual inspired by the popular hashtag...#BlackGirlMagic. The hashtag all about rewriting the Black Girl Narrative.
Hashtags are a part of her narrative…rewrite
#Black#woman#Hate#Bitter#Queen#Girl#Love#BlackLivesMatter#Beauty#Angry#story#narrative#magic#history#society#Melanin#Her#Us#Them#Unapologetic#Stereotype#Media#Loud#Rascism#Magic#Family#Dream#African#Culture#Slay#Bitch#pain#Abuse#money #daughter#
In the age of the internet comes the hashtag
A hashtag has a spirit and it comes with its own story
#Black girl magic: a sentiment shared by one of us, all of us and her.
Black girl magic
A chosen tag rooted in identity.
Her Identity still in the making. Blackness embodied.
She doesn’t have to do anything, just exist
She doesn’t need to be defined by suffering
or held hostage by the pain of the past and present.
Black girl magic deserves to glitter profiles.
True to her own image and changing the status quo.
Her image reigns on social media
She wears her crown like a cover from man’s inhumanity.
Armed with the power of a hashtag.
She believes in black girl magic.
Black girl.
Grow. Bloom. Flourish
Water that ego.
By Beautifully visualising black power with every post
No shade.
Not brighter, just a different shine
She owns the light, but not to dim another’s.
She continues to illuminate across the world with every snap
To keep from shrinking in the midst of negativity and grimmer realities
Like an ant blessed with a strength greater than her size.
She bears the heaviness of hate eager to squeeze her spirit.
Her magic doesn’t make everything alright,
or superior
or exotic .
Her magic positively floods the web
She Asserts herself in the digital age.
Consciously pushing against the current of her society
They nibble at…
Her brain.
Her beauty.
Her being
#Black girl magic :The Tribe
Like a flowering shrub, it blossoms in clusters
She is a branch of the social network tree.
The hashtag is a community
It’s a shared experience with support and sympathy embedded
A space that elevates and embraces their voices, their melanin, their bodies
Their presence becomes louder and louder until the magic sprouts a trending topic.
It’s an invite to a party
Everyone joins the conversation
It spreads fierce statements of pride and inspiration
This multiplication is magic
Black girl magic is a road towards her emancipation.
The hashtag alone tells a million stories.
It is a melting pot of intangibles
Black girl.
All that magical blackness.
Display it, share it, repost it, revel in it
Add the hashtag BlackGirlMagic before hitting send.
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