The Unapologetic Love of Nuanced Black Joy: Our Relationships Sustain Us

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This co-authored symposium shares a knowledge co-creation story that was sustained through a Black-led educator activist collectives’ decision to center Black joy and healing in conversations that imagined liberatory futures. We offer this story as an unapologetic love of nuanced Black joy, or the unabashed centering of relationships, happiness, and fulfillment in knowledge co-creation purposed to sustain liberatory acts. Through inviting participants and panelists to explore our collective and individual relationships to joy, we seek to extend, negotiate, and shift toward centering Black joy reconciliation in knowledge co-creation and its mobilization.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research Focus on Black Education

Chair

• Nathaniel D. Stewart, University of Minnesota

Participants

• Omowale Crowder, Columbus City Schools

• Fawn Harris

• Meghan L. Green, Erikson Institute

• Elizabeth Turner, Ohio Department of Higher Education

Papers

• Black Joy in Social Emotional Learning and Black History Instructional Practices - Omowale Crowder, Columbus City Schools

• Black Joy Through Intertwined Lenses of Black Parenthood and Student Relationships - Meghan L. Green, Erikson Institute

• Black Joy in Educational Justice Knowledge Co-Creation - Nathaniel D. Stewart, University of Minnesota

• Black Joy and Storytelling - Fawn Harris

• Black Joy in Collectively Defining Success - Elizabeth Turner, Ohio Department of Higher Education

Discussant

• Karen Stansberry Beard, The Ohio State University