Solange Knowles,Corinne Bailey Rae, Barack Obama and Amandla Stenberg all believe in it we unpack the hashtag that’s having a moment#BlackGirlMagic. It might sound like a Disney film with young women of colour on broomsticks but, or in reality,an opinion approximately black female identity that began life on social media has become a cosmic rallying cry. Neo-soul singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae recently defined #BlackGirlMagic as “being fun and sparkly … and not having your life defined by your blackness and representation of what blackness is”. It’s been unpacked by Solange Knowles and critiqued in Elle magazine. Even Barack Obama is talking approximately it.
If you shatter it down, it’s a way of black women expressing our solidarity with each other. Its current incarnation may live mostly online, and but it is an embodiment of something many black women have been doing for years in genuine life: forming communities of support based around our mutual disenfranchisement.
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Source: theguardian.com