Intersectional Organizing, Solidarity-Building, and Educational Justice: A Town Hall Conversation With Scholars and Community Organizers

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session brings into conversation scholars and community organizers to discuss insights from research and from movement-building efforts to create solidarity across communities and issue-based campaigns. In this way the session will help make scholarship more relevant and movements better informed by research as we seek to dismantle systems of white supremacy and imagine the possibilities for educational justice and a liberatory future.

Panelists will discuss the following questions, engaging and interweaving theoretical concepts, research, and practice:
• How can intersectional approaches and solidarity-building create stronger, more inclusive, and potentially more actionable efforts at educational transformation?
• What are the key foundations for intersectional organizing and the processes, factors, and strategies that help connect communities and issue-based movements?
• How can scholars and organizers center anti-Black racism and recognize the oppression faced by Indigenous and other peoples as they seek to build an intersectional movement in ways that avoid an “oppression Olympics?”
• In what ways can scholars and organizers collaborate to deeply interrogate educational injustice and dream a vision for liberation across communities and perspectives?

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Cosponsor

• SIG-Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Justice

Chair

• Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts - Boston

Speakers

• Patrice M. Hill, University of California - Davis

• Denisha Coco Blossom, University of California - Davis

Discussant

• Shawn A. Ginwright, Harvard University

Panelists

• Megan Bang, Northwestern University

• Bettina L. Love, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Vajra M. Watson, University of Redlands

• Jonathan Stith, Alliance for Educational Justice

• Letha Muhammad, Educational Justice Alliance

• LuzMarina Serrano, Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network