2022
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.983496
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“I rewrote their story and you can, too”: Black girls’ artistic freedom dreams to create new worlds

Abstract: For Black girls, whose histories are often taught in schools through deficit-based narratives, the need to create and reauthor their personal and communal stories is a resistant act that gives their stories permanence in the present and the future. This article explores how Black girls leveraged creative expression to freedom dream in a virtual summer arts program. Theoretically grounded in Abolitionist Teaching and Critical Race Feminism, this study explored eight adolescent Black girls’ (co-researchers) expe… Show more

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“…As Black girls learn about what it means to be unsafe, they can better understand the social and structural conditions that threaten their safety and consider the necessary changes in their social relationships and contexts to ensure their safety and well-being (Price-Dennis et al, 2017). Even as Black girls experience and acknowledge intersectional oppression, they maintain a sense of radical hope (i.e., envisioning socially just worlds) by engaging in practices like creating visionary fiction, art-making, and curating spaces that prioritize their liberation and healing (Kaler-Jones, 2022; Toliver, 2022).…”
Section: Black Girls’ Identity Development Within a Radical Healing F...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Black girls learn about what it means to be unsafe, they can better understand the social and structural conditions that threaten their safety and consider the necessary changes in their social relationships and contexts to ensure their safety and well-being (Price-Dennis et al, 2017). Even as Black girls experience and acknowledge intersectional oppression, they maintain a sense of radical hope (i.e., envisioning socially just worlds) by engaging in practices like creating visionary fiction, art-making, and curating spaces that prioritize their liberation and healing (Kaler-Jones, 2022; Toliver, 2022).…”
Section: Black Girls’ Identity Development Within a Radical Healing F...mentioning
confidence: 99%