Restorying a Teacher Educator: Endarkened Feminism

• In Event: Teacher Educators of Color Under Attack

Abstract

This critical autoethnographic narrative examines the author’s personal and professional transformation as a Black woman educator working within predominantly white institutions. Drawing on Endarkened Feminist Epistemology, critical autoethnography, and the concept of restorying, the piece explores how the author was socialized into race work that centered whiteness and her conscious shift away from this orientation. Through reflection, vulnerability, and storytelling, I interrogate my complicity in white-dominant education spaces while charting a future grounded in a Black gaze and liberatory praxis. By engaging the six forms of restorying—time, place, perspective, mode, metanarrative, and identity—this narrative invites other scholar-practitioners to consider how they, too, might heal, transform, and imagine new ways of being in the work.

Author

• Chanelle Wilson, Bryn Mawr College