Locating the Geographies of Black Girlhoods in Education
Virtual Research Conference
Keynote Speaker: Ruth Nicole Brown
October 8-9, 2021
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2021
This Black Girlhoods in Education Research Collective (BGERC) and American Educational Research Association (AERA) sponsored conference seeks to bring together scholars whose work highlights the spaces/places of Black girlhoods in education research, bringing to the fore how geographies intersect with genders and sexualities to shape what is known and knowable about Black girls.
We seek research attuned to the knowledge, experiences, and needs of Black girls who exist on the margins of mainstream conceptualizations of the idealized Black girl–
those who are poor, working-class, non-binary, agender, transgender, queer, dis/abled, undocumented, immigrant, practitioners of indigenous spiritualities, and and and…
Specifically, we invite papers that:
- Attend to Black girlhood as an inherently dynamic and plural category by functioning as a venue for examining the philosophical, sociological, historical, and other foundational contexts of the geographies, genders, and sexualities of Black girlhoods.
- Disrupt the meta narrative of Black girlhood as a narrowly singular category by irradiating how geographies (defined here as specificity of context and location or situatedness in space and place), as well as the expansiveness and expressiveness of genders and sexualities, intersect with other identities (e.g., race, class, dis/ability, religion, ethnicity, etc.) shape Black school-aged girls’ multiplicitous experiences of Black girlhoods.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words can be submitted here before May 31st, 2021, the submission deadline. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit full drafts by August 31, 2021.
