ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines both Knowledgeable Agents of the Digital and Black feminist thought (BFT) as frameworks to examine the ways African American women, mothers, and adolescent females are portrayed and empowered within digital and non-digital texts and literacies. While BFT has been explored to speak to the African American woman's "agents of knowledge", when it comes to the emerging theory about digital literacies, and extending to knowledgeable agents of the digital framework, this work is least researched. The chapter focuses on Larnee, a participant from author's longitudinal study, who described her allegiance to digital literacies from a past of physical, emotional, psychological, and sexual abuse, and having been born with a rare skin disease, Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). It highlights the interconnections between knowledgeable agents of the digital, BFT, and African American women's agentive practices with digital texts, and how African American adolescent females write their identities with digital and non-digital texts.
