Go Off Sis: Journeying Through (Re)Searching With Black Girls Through Space and Place

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this symposium is to center the work of four Black women scholars who utilize humanizing participatory research methods to envision and design empowering literacy spaces in collaboration with Black women and girls. We ask: how can we design spaces where Black girls can enact literacy in resistance to racism and oppression using humanizing research methods? As four Black women literacy scholars, we make visible the possibilities of what counts as humanizing research methods in literacy that center Black girls by promoting equity of voice, intentionally making space and time, and honoring varied identities, including their ways of knowing and being. Further, we build on out-of-school literacy collaborative scholarship from scholars who strive to construct new educational possibilities.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chairs

• Barrett Rosser, Morgan State University

• Tamara Moten, University of Georgia

Papers

• Practitioner Inquiry Into Black Girls’ Self-Love Literacies - Barrett Rosser, Morgan State University

• Using Sista Circles to Foster Literacy Practices of Black Girl Competitive Gymnasts' Experiences - Tamara N. Moten, Wesleyan College

• Black Girls’ Hip-Hop Dance Literacy and the Politics of Respectability - LaTasha Hutcherson Price, Central Georgia Technical College

• Black Girl Resistance as a Literary Movement - Kiedra B. Taylor, University of Connecticut

Discussant

• Tisha Lewis Ellison, University of Georgia