This dialogue features two pioneers of Black digital studies— Dr. Kishonna L. Gray, whose scholarship asks, “How are we creating and curating community?,” and fellow gaming scholar Dr. André Brock, who describes himself as an “autodidactic Black information studies” scholar who is “intentionally and openly Black in [his] scholarship…epistemology and… methodology.”
“I never see myself as an activist. What i see myself is speaking blackness into existence. Not begging to be seen, but saying hey we’ve been here, we’ve been doing this stuff, and if you look to this new field of the digitial you can see ways that we have already asserted ourselves in ways that are specific to our history, to our tradition, and our joy”