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Session Submission Type: Symposium
The purpose of this session is to examine Black girls' multimodal literacies that reimagine identity development and empowerment (Muhammad and Womack, 2015), digital hush harbors as alternative book-clubbing space (Kynard, 2010), a self-care collective for women of color, and academic othermothering in young adult literature (Collins, 2009).
Get Lit: An Auto-Ethnography of Black Millennial Women’s Engagement with a Digital Book Club - Melanie Kirkwood, University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign
Black Girl in Om: A Virtual Ethnography of Black Women’s Self Care Practices in Digital Spaces - Autumn Griffin, University at Maryland- College Park; Melanie Kirkwood, University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign
“Literacy teachers are our school parents”: A literary analysis of Black female literacy educators academically othermothering Black female students depicted in multicultural young adult texts - Delicia Greene, University of Albany