Writing my daughter’s body

Evans‐Winters, Venus E.

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“…In order to deconstruct the undue influence of deficit-based narratives on Black women’s sexual development, the current study builds on prior work (Stephens & Phillips, 2005) and draws on Black feminist thought as a culturally specific, qualitative paradigm to examine sexual socialization processes within Black families (Collins, 2002; Evans-Winters, 2019). Black feminism engages with the historical and contemporary economic, social, and political lived realities of Black girls and women and centers on Black women’s agency in their meaning-making processes.…”

Section: Black Women’s Sexual Development and Black Feminist Thoughtmentioning

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Steeped in Shame: An Exploration of Family Sexual Socialization Among Black College Women

Leath

Pittman

Grower

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Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Most research on Black girls’ sexuality emphasizes reducing risk behaviors, with less attention to dimensions of healthy and normative sexual development, such as body positivity. To address this gap, we sought to explore the diversity of sexual messaging young Black women received during their formative years. Using consensual qualitative research methods, we explored how 50 Black college women (ages 18–24 years) described their sexual socialization within family contexts in relation to their current sexual beliefs and behaviors. The following themes emerged from the data: messages of discretion, negative messages about physical appearance, messages of deference, messages of abstinence, absence of sexual messages, messages of body positivity, messages of egalitarianism, messages of sex positivity, and messages of sexual distrust and dismissiveness. Black families’ sexual socialization processes were also influenced by ethnicity, social class, and religious orientation. Our findings situate Black women’s family sexual socialization practices within a sociohistorical framework and highlight the need to support Black girls’ healthy sexual development by eliminating fear, shame, or taboo around sexual exploration. Education and advocacy efforts should focus on communicating openly with youth to help them make more positive decisions about sex and bodily autonomy.

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Steeped in Shame: An Exploration of Family Sexual Socialization Among Black College Women

Leath

Pittman

Grower

et al. 2020

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…Evans-Winters (2019) noted that Black women “have presented in alternative textual forms the daily struggles Black women endure from conjointly race-based and gendered perspectives” (p. 25). That is, Black women tell stories in myriad formats.…”

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“…The recreation of experience through testimony and the call to witness the narratives of Black people suggest the prominence of the dialogical voice—“the act of listening, writing, and conversing in one’s cultural point of reference” (Evans-Winters, 2019, p. 22)—in the Black intellectual tradition. The storyteller testifies by sharing their experience, invites the listener to witness their testimony, and waits for the listener to provide a response to their call.…”

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“…Still, the study of narratives through modern qualitative research methods can help researchers become better witnesses to Black girls’ storied testimonies. Learning to bear witness is essential because the narrative literacies of Black women and girls are “important humanizing projects in contemporary contexts that attempt to dehumanize, oppress, suppress, and annihilate Black bodies” (Evans-Winters, 2019, p. 23). That is, witnessing Black girls’ stories is an essential component to social justice contexts that tout a humanizing approach to research.…”

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“…Segmenting Black girls’ testimonies to include a larger number of stories dulls their vibrancy, diminishes their complexity, and reduces their layers. Black girl storytelling is a mosaic (Evans-Winters, 2019), and their stories need adequate space to be told.…”

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Can I Get a Witness? Speculative Fiction as Testimony and Counterstory

Toliver

2020

Journal of Literacy Research

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Drawing on Black feminist/womanist storytelling and the three-dimensional narrative inquiry space, this article showcases how one Black girl uses speculative fiction as testimony and counterstory, calling for readers to bear witness to her experiences and inviting witnesses to respond to the negative experiences she faces as a Black girl in the United States. I argue that situating speculative fiction as counterstory creates space for Black girls to challenge dominant narratives and create new realities. Furthermore, I argue that considering speculative fiction as testimony provides another way for readers to engage in a dialogic process with Black girls, affirming their words as legitimate sources of knowledge. Witnessing Black girls’ stories is an essential component to literacy and social justice contexts that tout a humanizing approach to research. They are also vital for dismantling a system bent on the castigation and obliteration of Black girls’ pasts, presents, and futures.

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A Black feminist youth participatory action research photovoice exploration of Black girls and college women

Payne

2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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Utilizing a Black and Hip Hop feminist and Black girlhood studies theoretical lens, the purpose of this study is to explore how Black girls (14–17) and women (19–22), who are in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) mentoring program, BlackGirlsResearch (pseudonym) express their gendered racial identities and gendered racial experiences through their participation in a YPAR photovoice program. This study seeks to answer the following research question: (1) How do Black girls and college women conceptualize their gendered racial identities and gendered racial lived experiences in predominately white schools using a YPAR methodology and photovoice? Employing a qualitative thematic analysis to explore 36 photovoice narratives, results yielded 3 themes: (1) experiencing challenges at predominately white institutions (PWIs): false inclusivity, continued underrepresentation, and tokenism (2) identifying as “queens of culture”: identity and empowerment through art, culture, and breaking conformity and (3) activism, inclusion, and accountability: solutions for PWIs. The results of this study indicate that Black girls and women can not only identify and critically discuss issues related to Black girls and women within PWIs, but through YPAR, they can push for positive youth development and community solutions related to those issues.

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Writing my daughter’s body

Cited by 61 publications

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Steeped in Shame: An Exploration of Family Sexual Socialization Among Black College Women

Steeped in Shame: An Exploration of Family Sexual Socialization Among Black College Women

Can I Get a Witness? Speculative Fiction as Testimony and Counterstory

A Black feminist youth participatory action research photovoice exploration of Black girls and college women

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