Cultivating Girl and Women of Color Collective Spaces: Reimagining Pedagogies and Methodologies That Center Our Stories and Language and Literacy Practices

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this panel is to highlight the experiences, languages, and literacies of Girls and Women of Color (WOC) as they gather in collective spaces. The papers demonstrate pedagogical and methodological tools such as plática, chismes, and the arts to narrate the stories of Girls/WOC. Collectively, we center the symposium on the following questions: (1) What are the stories, language, and literacy practices that emerge when Girls/WOC come together? And (2) how can the experiences cultivated within these spaces teach us about pedagogy to reimagine k-12 schooling and teacher education? The papers take up these questions across different institutional and geographical contexts and through a variety of modes of meaning-making to share the stories of Girls/WOC.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Adrianna González Ybarra, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Papers

• Co-Creating a Woman of Color Preservice Teacher Collective Through Pláticas - Adrianna González Ybarra, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

• YO! Chisme Is Good! Latinx Girls’ Literacies of Confianza in an After-School Program - Idalia Nunez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Monica Gonzalez Ybarra, University of Illinois; Brian Acosta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Curators of Educational Dreams: Girls of Color as Creators of Liberatory Artspaces - Grace D. Player, University of Connecticut; Patricia E. Kim, New York University

Discussant

• Farima P. Pour-Khorshid, University of San Francisco