Understanding Black Women's Motivations for Creating Black Girl Spaces

• In Event: Narrating Black Girl Space and Womanhood

Abstract

This paper focuses on the perspectives of Black women youth workers and founders of CBES that intentionally serve Black girls and what motivates their efforts to create Black Girl Spaces, fugitive educational spaces between Black women and girls (ross, 2019). Using Brown's (2013) homegirl concept, preliminary findings show that Black women youth workers and CBES founders have two sources of motivation to create Black Girl Spaces: (1) they want to create counter spaces for Black girls and (2) they see this work as their calling as Black women. Understanding Black women’s motivations for creating Black Girl Spaces contributes to existing scholarship at the intersection of CBES and Black Girlhood Studies and strengthens our understanding of Black Girl Spaces.

Author

• Khrysta Evans, University of Wisconsin - Madison