Crit Moving: Black, Brown, and Queer Coalitions for Liberated Educational Futures

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Taking its cue from the rhythmic footwork of Los Angeles’s C-Walk—a testament to Black creativity under surveillance that moves forward, backward, and side to side in no fixed pattern but with strategic intent—this presidential session introduces Crit Moving as a collective practice of moving through and, at times, against dominant educational paradigms. Moving here is not a literal act but the creative, embodied, and coalitional maneuvers communities make to survive and thrive. The session invites diverse scholars working across the "Crits in education" to chart pathways that disrupt carceral, fascist, and repressive logics while mapping routes toward liberation. An intergenerational dialogue on social movements, mentorship, memory, and methodological futurity asks how coalition-centered methods move us—together and across differences—toward just educational worlds.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Omi Salas-SantaCruz, University of Utah

Participants

• Tiffani Marie, San Jose State University

• Kenjus T. Watson, American University

• Tracy Lachica Buenavista, California State University - Northridge

• Edward R. Curammeng, California State University - Dominguez Hills

• Ed Brockenbrough, University of Pennsylvania

• Nichole M. Garcia, Rutgers University

• Noor Ali, Northeastern University

Discussant

• Daniel Gilbert Solorzano, University of California - Los Angeles