I don't see a lot of "non-traditional" scholarship from non-academics (I'm talking college educated scholars) under a lot of these hashtags about citing folks. Including those directed toward Black women. And I wish we would discuss that more.

I would love to see more scholarship about erotic labor, mainly prostitution, and disability, technology, fat politics, and misogynoir by black women and nonbinary people that isn't limited to journals, books from large publishers, or PhDs.

I have included my work under a particular hashtag like this many times, only for it to be ignored. My work via twitter is discounted and dismissed by other black folks who consider me "net famous" and may follow me and have a capital-based idea of what is valuable.

I say all this to highlight the fact that many of us "deviant," queer, disabled, and other non-normative people do our best work online via blogs, social media, and articles only to be told that it's not enough or that it doesn't count.

Not only that, many of us are ignored or ridiculed by the very people (PhDs, gurus, and journalists) who steal from us. I know of a PhD who stripped for 5 minutes who never IDd as a sex worker until the movement began picking up steam. And now suddenly she's an "expert."

I want the work that I, and many others, do online to be recognized and not just mentioned as an aside because it's "low end" or "non-traditional." I don't think we should have to defer to academic institutions or journals for our work to be considered legitimate.