Activists often have used dress to express solidarity with Black resistance movements such as the US Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In our research, we built upon our own and previous scholars’ work by analyzing the intersections of activism, identity, and dress in a specific space, place, and context: twenty-first-century Black women college students during the Black Lives Matter movement from 2013 to 2019 who were attending land-grant, predominately white institutions in Iowa. We explored these women’s everyday “fashion activism” through analysis of objects, photographs, and stories. We found that dress practices historically used by Black women activists are being revived and repurposed in the twenty-first century at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement era. These women shared that they knowingly wore these styles to emulate both their own and previous Black women’s dress practices.

活动家经常使用着装来表达对黑人抵抗运动的声援，例如 1950 年代和 1960 年代的美国民权运动。在我们的研究中，我们通过分析特定空间、地点和背景中的行动主义、身份和着装的交叉点，以我们自己和之前学者的工作为基础：21 世纪黑人女大学生在 Black Lives Matter 运动中从 2013 年到 2019 年，他们参加了爱荷华州的土地授予，主要是白人机构。我们通过对物品、照片和故事的分析来探索这些女性的日常“时尚激进主义”。我们发现，在 Black Lives Matter 运动时代的鼎盛时期，黑人女性活动家历史上使用的着装做法正在复兴和重新利用。