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Freedom Dreaming in a Broken World: The Black Radical Imagination in Black Girls' Science-Fiction Stories
Fri, April 9, 4:10 to 5:40pm EDT (4:10 to 5:40pm EDT), SIG Sessions, SIG-Writing and Literacies Paper and Symposium SessionsAbstract
Drawing from a larger narrative inquiry project with the objective of determining how Black girls might use written and oral storytelling to discuss, critique, and subvert experiences with social in/justice, this paper connects the Black Radical Imagination and Critical Race English
Education to center the science fiction short stories of three Black girls. In focusing on
these stories, the author explores how Black girls’ science fiction writing is grounded in
their ways of being and knowing, but also how this writing foregrounds their freedom dreams.