49.024 - Overpoliced and Underserved: Voices of Girls of Color and LGBTQ Youth on Discipline and Punishment

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium presents research around experiences that girls of color and LGBTQ youth have with school discipline and the criminal justice system. Papers provide research on how girls of color and LGBTQ youth are overpoliced inside and outside of schools. Youth presenters share findings from a campaign led by girls of color around the effects of discipline policies on girls of color and LGBTQ youth in New York; a critical examination of transformative justice interventions of a New York City activist organization of criminalized and formerly incarcerated girls and trans people of color; an analysis of California’s multilayered disciplinary practices that excessively police girls of color; and an examination of how school discipline commits “symbolic violence” against Black girls' identities.

Sub Unit

• Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education

Chair

• Maisha T. Winn, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• Girls of Color Researchers: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Harsh School Discipline Practices - Kate McDonough, Girls for Gender Equity, Inc.

• Punishment as Violence: Girls of Color and School Discipline Practices - Connie Wun, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Black Girls "Talking Back": YouTube Vlogging in Response to Symbolic Violence - Crystal T. Laura, Chicago State University; Robin Phelps-Ward, Clemson University

• Resisting Transcarceral State Violence: Girls of Color and Trans Youth of Color at the Forefront of Building a Transformative Justice Movement - Lena Carla Palacios, City University of New York