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Divine Love in Me: Black Girl Love as Resistance Against Oppressive Schooling

Fri, April 12, 9:35 to 11:05am, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 404

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

bell hooks’s All About Love laid the groundwork for a Black Feminist Theory of love. Nearly two decades later education desperately needs hooks’s framework to support Black girls and dismantle racial injustice in schools. This panel explores radical practices of self- and Divine love in support of Black girls. We offer studies that draw on bell hooks’s theories of love and divinity to shed light on pedagogical practices and methodologies grounded in Divine- and self-love and provide support to those who work with Black girls, including educational researchers, classroom teachers, and community educators. Together, we ask how do educators of Black girls draw on divinely-inspired and self-love to engage Black girls in praxes of love and joy?

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