Healing and Trauma Across Learning Contexts: BIPOC Youth Perspectives and Practices

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium examines how racialized trauma is embedded in schooling and community spaces and how BIPOC youth engage healing-centered practices across contexts. Grounded in Critical Race Theory, Chicanx Feminist epistemologies, and trauma studies, this session investigates: how Latinx immigrant-origin youth engage in collective inquiry on trauma and healing; how Women/Femmes of Color experience and respond to literacy trauma in a PWI; and how Black youth use place-based education to process racial trauma and grief. Using photovoice, portraiture, and participatory methods, this session documents student-led practices that challenge institutional harm and offer possibilities for trauma-informed, healing-centered interventions.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Sharim Hannegan-Martinez, University of Michigan

Papers

• “Life is really worth living”: Cultivating Latinx Young People’s Experiences of Radical Healing - Saraí Blanco Martinez, University of Michigan

• (Re)Writing Literacy Relationships: Tracing Writing Memories, Literacy Trauma, and Healing for Girls of Color - Catherine Ventura, University of Michigan

• Escaping Surveillance and Belonging Outside: Investigating Place-Based Education, Fugitivity, and Racial Healing for Black Youth - Marquise Griffin, University of Michigan

Session Organizer

• Catherine Ventura, University of Michigan

Discussant

• Ayleen Correa, University of Michigan