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#FastTailedGirls

Begun by Mikki Kendall and Jamie Nesbitt Golden in the wake of ongoing accusations against R. Kelly for rape and abuse of underage girls. The term “fast-tailed” in AAVE term used to describe girls who are supposedly sexually curious or promiscuous. Kendall and Golden used the hashtag to challenge this victim-blaming narrative and offer intersectional analysis of the ways Black girls are sexualized in American culture. Read more about this in Chapter 2 of #HashtagActivism.

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