ABSTRACT
This piece theorizes and reflects upon the use of the internet and digital spaces and its various technological logics to mobilize, to discuss, to argue and to protest from an identity position. Through a study of the cloud-based collaborative document “Open Letter to My Parents about Black Lives Matter,” this chapter finds that strategic essentialist discourses and vernacular discourses of identity can reveal the liberating potential of the internet by cultivating communities and sites of cross-racial coalitions that also engage in identities that are united yet diverse.
