Poster #39 - Toward Queer Intersectional Abolitionism to Unpack School Community Partnerships

• In Event: 64.090 - MTCC Poster Session 15
  In Poster Session: 64.090-6 - Family, School, Community Partnerships SIG Poster Session

Abstract

The paper asks “what a queer intersectional abolitionist framework can tell us about school and community collaboration?” In this paper we map different aspects of our emerging framework, describe how we mobilize this framework in our study of school-community collaboration models in Philadelphia, PA, and reflect on data gathered from case studies of collaboration models that we are examining in the study. What we have found in mobilizing our framework is that most collaboration models continue to operate in a service model that leave intersecting forces of oppression intact. Working in an abolitionist stance moves us to unsettle these forces and encourage us to radically reimagine the transformative possibilities.

Authors

• Edwin Mayorga, Swarthmore College

• Maya Henry, Swarthmore College