Extraordinary Literacies/Empyreal Logics: Regarding Praxes of Black Girls and Women in Schools and Society

• In Event: I Love You, Black Girl: An Exploration of Strengths-Based Supports Informed by Critical Theories

Abstract

This paper presents a conceptual and practical framework that shows how Black girls and women decolonize their interior lives. By sharing the distinct and dynamic ways they generate praxes for wholeness, despite systemic oppressions that attempt to dismember them, it portraitures Black girls and women as leaders of third wave new literacies for the evolution of all people. For this project, I focus specifically on 800 stories from Black girls and women who are healing from various injuries produced by micro, macro, and systemic aggressions occurring within schools and society. Through my findings, I push forward a new literacies theory of personhood by examining the effects of (and (r)evolutions after) race and gender injury among these venerable members.

Author

• Jeanine M. Staples-Dixon, Pennsylvania State University