Mothering in an Era of Fascism, Racism, and the 45th Presidency #healingcurriculum

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In light of the growth in white supremacist organizations and students’ use of racial slurs as fomented by the 2017 presidential election, this session considers mothering movements that heal epistemic violence and create educational practices of healing - mothering as an active expression of curriculum. Not limited to biological mothering, this session discusses mothering as a verb: mothering movements, mothering place, mothering knowledge as survivance practices despite genocidal conditions. Participants draw from a range of experiences, including African American mothering of schooling movements, pedagogical praxis from Pinay and motherscholar perspective, Native mothering in Indigenous curricular knowledges, mothering in/against the prison industrial complex, and contemporary Latinx mothers’ movements in education. This session will be conducted and recorded a radio show format.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Chairs

• K. Wayne Yang, University of California - San Diego

• Vonzell Agosto, University of South Florida

• Isabel Nunez, Indiana University - Purdue University at Fort Wayne

• M. Francyne Huckaby, Texas Christian University

Speakers

• Angie Morrill, Portland Public Schools

• Crystal T. Laura, Chicago State University

• Cheryl E. Matias, University of Colorado - Denver

• Nichole A. Guillory, Kennesaw State University

• Veronica Nelly Velez, Western Washington University

• Camille M. Wilson, University of Michigan

Discussant

• Denise M. Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University