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Instagram users spent June 2 reflecting on ways to support the black community by posting black squares onto their feeds.
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Online allyship: a broken game of do like I do

The idea of displaying solidarity by posting a black square on Instagram hijacked the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag with a performative display of allyship

  • Zaza Hlalethwa
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