“America Has a Problem”: Sista Scholars’ Rebellion as Resilience

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

For us, three Black women with doctoral degrees in education, it was our sisterhood that we developed during our doctoral programs that helped us thrive. We share our work to acknowledge the ways that our sisterhood not only nourished our souls but supported our academic success and allowed us to create and engage in research that honored and continues to honor our full selves. This session shares how our sisterhood offered us affirmation, accountability, healing, protection, and support while also revealing how our work pushes boundaries to centre Blackness and Black liberation within educational research. Through each paper, we express how our sisterhood supported and enhanced our work while also offering methodological frameworks and research rooted in critical frameworks.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Alexandria Harvey, WestEd

Papers

• I Ain’t Sorry: Protecting Identities of Research Co-Creators Through Character Innovation - D'Annette Mullen, University of Florida

• Mood 4 Eva Eva: Liberatory Pedagogies With Black Language Amongst My Sistas - Alexis J. Freeman, University of Florida

• “Kiss My Scars ‘Cause I Love What They Made”: Black Mothering as Resistance - Tianna Dowie-Chin, University of Georgia

Discussant

• Taryrn T.C. Brown, University of Florida