To Be Audacious and Black Women Educators: Making Space Where There Ain’t None, How to be Subversive and Stay Black

• In Event: Antiracist Education and Abolition in the 21st Century

Abstract

As Black women educators, we have taken our place in education as audacious women. We argue that to be audacious, we must embody our ancestors' boldness amidst oppression and use our intersectional strengths to disrupt systemic barriers. By doing this, we created subversive and Black centered spaces. Our journey as audacious Black women led us to conceptualize Black Liberatory Educational Subversion (BLES),Insulated Praxis, and Moisturized and Wrapped Healing Circles. Our work is guided by the frameworks of afropessimism, afrofuturism, endarkened feminist epistemologies. We use fugitivity as method to refute the marginalization of historically excluded groups. Our work advocates for Black-centered spaces rooted in healing and restoration that move toward educational liberation from systemic antiblackness.

Authors

• Tamra Gertrude Jenkins, University of the Pacific

• Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, Stanford University