Glossary

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AAVE – African American Vernacular Engl­ish, aka. Black English. A dialect and socio-linguistic language developed by Black folX due to theft from the motherland and forced into enslavement in the Americas. Oppression of language through suppression in education and dislocation led to the creolization of English [1]

Afrofuturism – Is experienced through folX of African descent existing and being in spaces and identities that we have either been erased from, suppressed from, oppressed from, and/or not imagined in [2].

Afro-Nostalgia – “Emerges as an expression of black romantic recollection that creates and inspires good feelings even within our darkest moments” [3]

Afropessimism – Acknowledges the reality of the last effects of colonialism, imperialism, brutalization, and theft of people in relation to folX of African descent.

Black WomXnism – Not feminism. As defined by Alice Walker, “… a wom[x]n who loves other women sexually and/or nonsexually … committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female” through challenging patriarchal systems that has oppressed Black folX[4].

Black Space – A space purposefully created for Black folX, free of paternalism, colonialism, and misogynoir.

CPT – Colored People’s Time

Hotep – An Egyptian word that means “at peace.” Has evolved to describe Afrocentric Black folX. Also used to describe a person who is “either a clueless parody of Afrocentricity…or someone who’s loudly, conspicuously and obnoxiously pro-Black but anti-progress”[5].

Misogynoir – Coined by Moya Bailey, it is the “anti-Black racist misogyny that Black Wom[x]n experience” that is internalized. This leads to the over-sexualization of Black Wom[x] and adds to existing stereotypes about Black WomXn[6].

[1] (Sidnell, n.d.)

[2] (Young, 2016)

[3] (2021, Badia, A.-L.)

[4] (Rahatt, 2020)

[5] (Young, 2016)

[6] (What is Misogynoir?, 2020)