Edwards, JessicaWalwema, Josie2022-06-082022-06-082022-04-30Jessica Edwards & Josie Walwema (2022) Black Women Imagining and Realizing Liberated Futures, Technical Communication Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2022.20692891542-7625https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/30967This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Technical Communication Quarterly on 04/30/2022, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10572252.2022.2069289. This article will be embargoed until 10/30/2023.In the summer of 1881, a group of Black women formed The Washing Society of Atlanta by deploying extraorganizational technical communication to collectively bargain for better working conditions and wages. In this article, we illuminate the ways that Black women operated in a world dominated by an established order of racial hierarchy. We argue that the Washerwomen manifested a particular form of Black technical communication rooted in agency and advocacy.en-USBlack TPCBlack Women in TPCSocial justice/ethicsHistory of technical communication/historical technical communicationBlack Technical CommunicationArticle