In The Wake: Black Girl Lessons on Collective Care. (14th October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Reynolds, Aja
• Is Part Of: Journal of intersectionality. Volume 5:Number 1(2021)
• Page Start: 18
• Page End: 27
• Publication Date: 2022-10-14
• Subjects: Black girlhood -- antiBlackness -- collective care -- Black geographies; 305
• DOI: 10.13169/jinte.5.1.0003
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2515-2122

Abstract

Abstract : This article centers Black girl leadership as a survival guide in this unprecedented moment of combating two pandemics, Covid-19 and extrajudicial killings of Black people. I recall lessons learned during my ethnographic research with Black girls in Chicago in which loss and grieving was often and premature. This piece is a response to Christina Sharpe's "wake work" conceptualization that challenges the collective care Black people specifically must engage both with our living and dead.