Black Women on Twitter are Celebrating Themselves With #BeingaBlackGirlisLit

Twitter user @Awkward_Duck, Cherell Brown created the #BeingaBlackGirlIsLit hashtag in March of 2015.

https://twitter.com/Awkward_Duck/status/573911150775111681

Now while it did garner support then as a self-love social media campaign, much like #blackout and #Iwillnotapologizeforbeingdarkskin, the movement garnered even stronger traction after the hashtag was revitalized upon the release of Beyonce’s “Formation” video and Super Bowl halftime performance, which many embraced as a pro-black girl anthem. The hashtag has become a venue for black women to really celebrate their blackness, which sometimes we’re often shamed into not embracing.

https://twitter.com/Awkward_Duck/status/696717772047454212

https://twitter.com/Awkward_Duck/status/696719752258048000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/Awkward_Duck/status/696709172986060800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/Awkward_Duck/status/696728566189420544

https://twitter.com/Keepin_up_wit_K/status/696764138106843136

https://twitter.com/_kelsology/status/696733530890510337

https://twitter.com/Keepin_up_wit_K/status/696763017913049088

https://twitter.com/tres_stimulante/status/696719567159218177

https://twitter.com/MicaBurton/status/696757310992093184

And for those that complain:

I propose that we keep #BeingABlackGirlIsLit as our mantra throughout 2016 and then on!

It truly is lit.