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Tate, Candis 2016-05-21T08:35:54Z 2016-05-21T08:35:54Z 2016 https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/59328 This thesis explores the way in which Black women digital content creators with natural hair utilize the private sphere -- the homespace-- as a means of claiming space on the internet to, educate, encourage, and inspire Black women with natural hair. Using a womanist lens, I examine five YouTube videos, as rhetorical artifacts, that demonstrate the communicative process of testifying. I argue that the combination of the homespace and testifying produces a transformative healing power that has mobilized Black women throughout the diaspora to wear their hair natural--otherwise known as the Contemporary Natural Hair Movement. en Wake Forest University LOVING BLACKNESS: BLACK WOMEN DIGITAL CONTENT CREATORS AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE HEALING POWERS OF THE CONTEMPORARY NATURAL HAIR MOVEMENT. Thesis French, Nathaniel Mitra, Ananda Gupta, Kristina Communication open.access