Item

Blackout Tuesday

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Title (Dublin Core)

Blackout Tuesday

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Description (Dublin Core)

HIST30060
Despite the global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement saw a resurgence after the murder of American George Floyd in May of this year. Protests were sparked all over the world, pushing for the action to end the systematic racism experienced by people of colour (POC) and indigenous people all around the globe. I took this screen recording on my phone when, on June 2nd of this year, people all over the world participated in what was called ‘Blackout Tuesday’, where they would post black squares to their instagram account in an effort to project the voices of those who experience the systematic racism. I follow many celebrities on instagram, which you can see in this video many participated in the movement. However, the effort was quickly criticised, as the masses of posts featuring the black square began to dominate the Black Lives Matter (BLM) hashtag on all social media, an important tool that had been used by many to organise and publicise protests all over the world. Instead of the intended goal of projecting black voices over their white counterparts, the black squares instead silenced the important information that was being spread through the hashtag, doing the opposite of the intended effect.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 2, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Sasha Longstaff

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Sasha Longstaff

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST30060

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Type (Dublin Core)

Screen recorded video

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Community & Community Organizations
English Politics
English Protest
English Social Issues
English Race & Ethnicity

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Social media
George Floyd
people of color
Blackout Tuesday
systematic racism

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Blackout Tuesday
hashtag
BLM
Black Lives Matter
Instagram
Insta feed
celebrities
failure

Collection (Dublin Core)

Social Justice
Black Voices

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

11/01/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

11/05/2020
02/15/2021
03/24/2021
08/12/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/02/2021

Item sets

Covid 19
Australian Collection

This item was submitted on November 1, 2020 by Sasha Longstaff using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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