Hello, and welcome to Overthink.
The podcast where two philosophers talk about philosophy in everyday life.
I'm Ellie Anderson.
And I'm David Penya Guzman.
David, the hashtag Black Girl Magic took off.
around 2013, 2014.
It's actually now since been patented.
I feel like that was kind of the heyday of hashtags, right?
And the Black Girl Magic hashtag was originally popularized as a way of emphasizing how Black women and girls have responded to the injustices that they face by crafting their own kind of magic,
a sort of protection,
self-care that is unassailable by an outside world that often does not appreciate them.
Yeah,
and I think it's often presented as a way of honoring the achievements of black women living in a racist culture that seeks to keep them down.
I'm mostly familiar with the hashtag black girl magic in the context of sports,
science and technology,
you know,
like black women who break into areas of research from which they have been historically excluded.
And I think what you're talking about is the career achievement aspect of it.
But I think often the hashtag is also used in the way that I was describing it as an indication of the sort of care which black women bring to their own relationships to self.
You know, the hashtag has also been the recipient of some criticisms.