"Defining Ourselves for Ourselves": Black Girls Conceptualize Black Girlhood Online. Issue 3 (1st December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kaler-Jones, Cierra
• Is Part Of: Girlhood studies. Volume 15:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 19
• Page End: 34
• Publication Date: 2022-12-01
• Subjects: adultification -- art -- history -- pedagogy -- self-care -- storytelling -- virtual settings; 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.2022.150304
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1938-8209

Abstract

Abstract: Black girls have long created their own subversive and creative forms of curriculum and pedagogy. I explore adolescent Black girls' suggestions for teaching and learning about Black girlhood online based on a virtual summer arts program called Black Girls S.O.A.R. Through performance ethnography, we contended with our conceptualizations of Black girlhood and identity sense-making. The co-researchers suggested that storytelling, learner-centered pedagogy, and intentional community-building must be central in virtual pedagogy and saw reclaiming girlhood and self-care as two essential topics for teaching Black girlhood content. I also reflect on the tensions and possibilities of co-constructing participatory learning environments with Black girls, particularly as it relates to disrupting power and adultism.