Integrating Tenets of Community Organizing and Speculative fiction for use in community-based research. (Poster 12)

• In Event: Division G Vice President Graduate Student/Early Career Scholar Poster Session

Abstract

I am developing a conceptual framework integrating tenets of community organizing and speculative fiction for use in community-based research. The intention is to foster healing between and among educators of color through storytelling, including guided reflective journaling, as a means of both processing racialized harm (Smith et al, 2021) and cultivating a liberatory consciousness (Love, 2000), particularly given the impact of erasure of Black and Brown narratives through anti-CRT and anti-DEI legislation. Many educators are looking to integrate culturally- and community-affirming practices, spirituality in organizations (Dantley, 2003) not built for our inclusion, and liberatory dreaming, but are struggling with the actualization of values in the face of institutionalized oppression; this is a space to explore a reflective framework to aid in this practice.

Author

• Courtney L. Parker West, University of Wisconsin - Madison