Toward Collective Imaginaries: Relational Survivance as Embodied Curriculum

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 12:40 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 1
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Abstract

We understand our research as relationally always in the making (Tachine & Niccolazzo, 2022). As such, this study revisits our individual research, related to the ways in which the bodies of girls are disciplined, and is (re)told through a collaborative storying process. We interweave the stories of the girls in our initial studies through a shared collective imaginary “that is just big enough to gather up the complexities and keep the edges open and greedy for surprising old and new connections” (Haraway, 2016, p. 101). We use feminist relational practice in an act of collective storytelling that focuses on the resistance and survivance of the girls of color in our studies.

Authors

• Kirsten Robbins, SUNY - College at Oneonta

• Alycia M. Elfreich, Montana State University