(Re)Shaping Our Educational Futures Through Literacies of Resistance

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Across educational spaces where communities of Color have been historically marginalized and silenced, literacies of resistance have become necessary tools for expressions of genius and care for our communities to thrive. This symposium (re)imagines the future of literacies as healing practices rooted in joy, love, and liberation. Papers center the restorative literacies of youth, undergraduate students, and Practitioners of Color across K-16, through storytelling, participatory, and critical ethnographic methodologies, revealing counterstorytelling, multimodal expressions, and collective meaning-making as acts of resistance against erasure. Together, these papers offer a vision of what becomes possible when cultura, community, and resistance are centered, where we can develop opportunities to (re)shape educational futures towards healing, justice, and love.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• monét cooper, University of Michigan

Papers

• Testimoniando Women of Color Preservice Teachers' Literacies: Reclaiming Literacies of Resistance - Adrianna González Ybarra, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

• Pedagogy del Corazón: Enacting Cariño and Embedding Restorative Literacies in Postsecondary Education - Yvette M. Regalado, University of Texas - San Antonio

• Civic Redesigns: Exploring Asian American Youths’ YPAR-Based Sociopolitical Literacies of Resistance - Ankhi Guha Thakurta, Boston College; Deepshikha Banerjee, Boston College; Yueyang Shen, Boston College

• Black Queer Youth Literacies as Maps of Resistance, Reclamation, and Revision in the Deep South - shea wesley martin, The Ohio State University

Session Organizer

• Adrianna González Ybarra, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Discussant

• Monica Gonzalez Ybarra, University of Illinois