Abstract
Twitter activism is a powerful tool for #BlackLivesMatter, but #BlackTransLivesMatter has not seen the same success. This study examined tweets collected during 1 week in May 2020 that encompassed the deaths of George Floyd, a cisgender Black male, and Tony McDade, a transgender Black male. Using a mixed-methods approach, we analyzed semantic networks and conducted a critical discourse analysis to determine how satellite publics function within activism discourse. We found a disconnect between the discussions that a separate network, bridge tweets, filled by constructing a discourse between the two networks that focused on lack of education about trans issues.
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