Pray You Catch Me: Dreaming Possibilities for Freedom Through Critical Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Pedagogies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Within the context of systemic racism, capitalism and misogyny, women of color are engaging in acts of survivance and dreaming possibilities for freedom (Davis, 2016). This symposium brings together three scholars whose research centers the experiences, resistance efforts, and innovations of women of color as they navigate schools and public spaces that are often hostile to their aesthetics and ways of knowing. Theoretically driven by Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, Black Feminist Methodologies, and Black and Xicanx Feminist Epistemologies, we recognize the need for scholarship shaped by the perspectives and understandings of women of color (Collins, 2000; Paris & Alim, 2017). When pedagogies center the worldviews of young women of color, we explore the powerful possibilities that emerge in theorizing movements for freedom.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Studies of diversity and variation within social contexts of education

Chair

• H. Samy Alim, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• Self-Making and Consumed Image: Theoretical Meditations on the Failures, Triumphs, and Complications of Black Womanhood - Mysia Anderson, Brown University

• "Are You Still Recording?" Considering Black Feminist Methodologies in Educational Narrative Research With Vulnerable Populations - Tanja Burkhard, University of Pittsburgh

• Lemonade and #Melaninmagic: Sustaining Young Women of Color's Acts of Survivance and Dreams Toward Freedom - Casey Philip Wong, Stanford University

Discussant

• Treva Lindsey, The Ohio State University