When I Say It, It’s the Truth: Reflections of “Hear Our Truths”

• In Event: Hear Our Truths: Critically Engaging Black Girlhood and the Scholarship of Ruth Nicole Brown

Abstract

In reflection and celebration of Hear Our Truths by Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, this paper will situate the ways in which this work investigates, interrogates and rearranges the politics of knowledge production. As Brown expands on the work of Black and women of color feminisms to advance conversations of creative power, this paper seeks to address the ways the Black girl celebration space of SOLHOT (and it’s collective) acknowledges the importance and imperativeness of this labor, love, and work as connection to freedom.

Presenter

• Jessica Robinson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign