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The Language of Black Girls' Love Lessons: Black Girls’ Teachings on Love Through Literacy
Thu, April 11, 9:00 to 10:30am, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 3, Room 307Session Type: Symposium
Abstract
Grounded in bell hooks’s (2000) All About Love, this session centers the work of scholars engaging in practices of love in support of Black girls. hooks’s monumental work laid the groundwork for a Black Feminist Theory of love that centers care, supports nurturing, and acknowledges mind, body, and spirit. We take up those tenets within literacies scholarship and put them in conversation with justice-oriented educational theorists to imagine new educational possibilities for dismantling systemic racial injustice. Together, we theorize Black girls’ loving language and literacies, as we research our own Black girl identities and subjectivities using various research methodologies as we ask What can Black girls’ literacies teach us about dismantling racial injustice and constructing educational possibilities?
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Papers
Returning Home: Unlocking Our Black Girlhood Stories Through Movement as Freedom - Tamara Moten, University of Georgia; Cierra Kaler-Jones, Rethinking Schools
I Love Us for Real!!”: Healing Our Inner Child to Fiercely Love Black Girls in the Community Literacy Context - Delicia Tiera Greene, University at Albany - SUNY
Black Girl Love in the Time of Isolation - Charlotte E Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania; Heather Hairston, American Univeristy
Building the Foundation for Self-Love: Black Women’s Work With Black Girls - Maureen Wiliette Nicol, Teachers College, Columbia University
When Did You Fall in Love With Education . . . and Yourself? An Ode to Black Women Teachers - Jaminque L. Adams, University of Georgia; Damaris C. Dunn, Drexel University; Bettina L. Love, Teachers College, Columbia University
Cultivating Voices of Black Girls in White Spaces - Sonja R. Cherry-Paul, Red Clay Educators