Worlds That Black Girls Deserve: Working With Black Girls Toward Black Girl Futures

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session brings educational researchers working on Black girlhood and with Black girls into conversation with each other. Through our various research methods - including arts-based practice, speculative fiction, and youth participatory action research - we understand that Black girls are meaning-makers and truth-tellers. More specifically, we engage Black girls as experts who know a lot about the worlds that they inhabit and the worlds they want to create. In different ways, each panelist intervenes on dominant (and one-dimensional) readings of Black girls as only ever pained and suffering. Instead, each presenter shares how they prioritize the hopes, dreams, and imaginings that Black girls have.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Jade Toneshia Nixon, University of Toronto

Papers

• (Re)Membering the Future: A Gallery Walk With Black Artists of Black Girlhood - Jennifer Danridge Turner, University of Maryland; Autumn A. Griffin, Georgia State University

• A Choice to Surrender: Endarkened Feminist Pedagogies to Honor Black Girls' Dreams - Stephanie R Toliver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• The Gift of Their Visions: The Stories That Black Girls Can Imagine in Youth Participatory Action Research - Jade Toneshia Nixon, University of Toronto