Languaging Literacies of Intersectionality: Women Academics’ Critical Dialogues on Race, Gender, and Place

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 3:45 pm - Gold 4
  In Roundtable Session: Literacies of Equity and Liberation in Higher Education

Abstract

We explore how race, gender, and language intersect in academic spaces through a multi-site ethnographic study using critical dialogue. Drawing from linguistic justice and intersectionality, we center lived experiences as both data and theory.
Our findings highlight how space and languaging function as liberatory practices, how virtual multimodal spaces foster connection, and how women navigate tensions between responsibility and superwoman expectations. Through reflexive dialogue, we transform academic spaces into sites of care and resistance.
We offer a model of justice-oriented, relationship-centered research that sustains scholars of color and challenges academic norms. We invite others to engage in critical dialogue as a pathway to healing, equity, and reimagined educational futures.

Authors

• Dianne T. Wellington, SUNY - College at Cortland

• Amy Walker, Kent State University

• Kerry H. Alexander, University of Maryland

• Jasmyn K. Jones, University of Memphis