BlackGirl Geography: A (Re)Mapping Guide towards Harriet Tubman and Beyond. Issue 3 (1st December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cahill, Loren S.
• Is Part Of: Girlhood studies. Volume 12:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 47
• Page End: 62
• Publication Date: 2019-12-01
• Subjects: autoethnography -- Blackgirlhood -- cartography -- freedomland(s) -- placemaking -- womanism; Girls -- Periodicals; Girls -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Girls -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Girls -- Education -- Periodicals; Girls -- Sexual behavior -- Periodicals; Girls -- Health and hygiene -- Periodicals; Women's studies -- Periodicals; 305.23082
• DOI: 10.3167/ghs.2019.120306
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1938-8209

Abstract

Abstract : Blackgirls have a long subaltern legacy of being geographers. We have complicated the settler-colonial project of cartography uniquely through our radical placemaking efforts towards achieving safety, inclusion, and liberation. In this autoethnographic article, I trace my own socio-spatial-sensory reflections that I experienced during my visit to Harriet Tubman's Homeplace, Senior Home, and Grave Site in Auburn, New York. I attempt to unsettle the undertheorized renderings of Tubman by interrogating her personal freedom dreams, liberation geography, and womanist cartography. I then map the intergenerational solidarity that Blackgirls have forged with Tubman more contemporarily through their own space making. I conclude by unpacking what ontological lessons both knowledge producers and organizers can glean from Tubman's geographic sacredness and savvy.