I’m Black & I’m Proud: Using Black Radical Tradition & Imagination as a Critical Pedagogical Method

Session Submission Type: Alternative Session

Abstract

Our critical collaborative will co-facilitate a community conversation that centers Blackness and engages Black Radical Tradition and Imagination as both a critical practice and lived inquiry. We will offer a zine, our self-published, limited edition, digital magazine that was driven by the content of the critical pedagogical connection of Black radical tradition and imagination. Through our co-curated zine, we established the Chocolate Children Collective in which we create space to help one another develop a more expansive epistemological curiosity and to tease the limits of the intersection of tradition and imagination as a pedagogical method. Thus, during this session we will simultaneously discuss the content of the zine as we embody radical joy and love while imagining an abolitionist future carrying on the tradition of Black ancestor-scholars through our individual scholarship.

Sub Track

• AESA

Presenters

• Cameron Loritts-Mungro, UNCG

• Sean McClure, UNCG

• Christina Spears, UNCG

Session Organizer

• Christina Spears, UNCG