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The Black Feminist Multimedia Project
(BFMP) is an amazing new course and website offering from Dr. Mireille Miller-Young at UC-Santa Barbara. The overview from the site:
| This advanced-level seminar will instruct students in how to utilize multimedia technologies, including the Internet, web and graphic design, and digital filmmaking and editing, to theorize various aspects of Black feminism. A central class website will function as a portal to individual, satellite websites for each student, and as a base site for the creation of networks between other Black feminist artistic, political, educational, or culturally oriented websites and our class website. In fact, the entire class will exist as a multimedia platform seeking to connect to a broader, global Black feminist digital network. In addition, each student will author a satellite website that will be an interactive space for posting written analyses of various Black feminist multimedia texts as well as their own digital media projects on aspects of Black feminist critical theory such as sexual politics, HIV/AIDS, body image, visual representation, gender norms, domestic violence, sex work, labor equity, globalization, or racial/ethnic identity formations. This seminar is the first of its kind at UC Santa Barbara, and will be the beginning of a larger pedagocial project of engaging media theories and practices focused on women of color. We will analyze the scholarship of a range of feminist authors and artists, including Deborah Willis, Carla Williams, Renee Green, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, Lorraine O'Grady, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Coco Fusco, Ann duCille, Jennifer Gonzalas, bell hooks, Judith Wilson, and others. |
