#blackgirlhood

[trascapades]

🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #ExhibitClosing There are only a few days left to see Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe at the @brooklynmuseum before the #exhibition closes January 1, 2023. Info: www.brooklymuseum.org

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Reposted from @brooklynmuseumReally Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe celebrates a preeminent and underrecognized figure of twentieth-century American art, contextualizing Rowe’s practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation for a Black woman artist living and working in the American Jim Crow-era South. Featuring more than one hundred works exploring themes of #girlhood, #play, and #spirituality, the Brooklyn Museum iteration is the first devoted to Rowe in New York City in more than twenty years...

Born in rural Georgia at the turn of the twentieth century, Rowe was raised amidst a complex cultural climate which led her to create drawings, cloth dolls, chewing gum sculptures, and a built environment. Together, her works combines to create an aesthetic of abundance. Rowe’s legacy is underscored by an assertion of self-liberation and creative independence.⁠

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Image 1 🎨 Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982). What It Is, 1978–82. Crayon, colored pencil, pencil on paper, 21 × 21 1/4 in. (53.3 × 54 cm). High Museum of Art, gift of Judith Alexander, 2003.215. © 2022 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. (Photo: © High Museum of Art, Atlanta)

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Image 3 🎨 Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982). Untitled (Nellie in Her Garden), 1978–82. Crayon and pencil on paper, 27 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (69.9 × 49.5 cm). High Museum of Art, gift of Judith Alexander in honor of Marianne Lambert, 2003.173. © 2022 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. (Photo: © https://www.instagram.com/HighMuseumofArt/, Atlanta)

#NellieMaeRowe⁠ #Liberation #BlackGirlhood #BlackWomenArtists #BlackGirlArtGeeks

#NellieMaeRoweBkM⁠

[kellicoles]

Winterthur’s Needlework Conference is this week! I will be presenting, sharing my research Thursday morning, October 6th. It will be focused on the first chapter of my dissertation,  “African Embroidery Traditions within the World History of Needlework” which is in progress. I am looking forward to the other presentations and to seeing fellow scholars I have not seen in a while or only have met virtually. Good times to come, God willing!

[scribesandvibes]

#heyyoungworld, #BOOKSCOMEINALLCOLORS when you #shopscribesandvibes! Take 10% off of this beautiful display of #selfdiscovery and #BlackGirlhood with promo code BLACKWRITERSMATTER.⁠ ⁠ #scribesandvibes • #youngadultbooks • #weallneeddifferentbookstolove • #blackwritersmatter • #findyourtribe ⁠ ・・・⁠ #bookcrush 📚😍: #SOMEBODYGIVETHISHEARTAPEN, written by #SophiaThakur https://www.instagram.com/p/CMsrIyLBs07/?igshid=i121m4bof5wx

[nascentthoughts2]

“I Can Only Do Me” in Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag: Twenty-First-Century Century Acts of Self-Definition (2019)

Today I read, “I Can Do Me”. In the book chapter the researchers examined the ways in which African American, Caribbean American and West African young adult girls navigate and name themselves in Brooklyn, New York. This piece was particularly close to me because I am from New York and spent my first four years of teaching in Brooklyn. In so many ways the Black girls that I taught are represented in this study. Thinking more recently about which Black girls I would like to engage and work with during my doctoral journey, I recognize the importance of being able to consider “which” Black girls I intend to name because Black girls are not a monolith. Our interlocking oppressions may be similar, but our standpoints are different based on how we see and name ourselves and what our lived experiences are. This is why conversations around intersectionality are so very important. 

Further, I think this study did a really amazing job at recognizing this. The more I read about Black girlhood studies, I recognize that the issues that Black girls face in and out of schools are mainly taken up by Black women. I find this particularly important because I value the work that can be done in affinity spaces. Thus, the research study examines Black girl experiences at KAVI, a violence prevention program, that serves Black girls. It is clear that within the study the Black girls that participate in KAVI have a rapport with the researchers, they speak freely and name themselves for themselves. The researchers are also keenly aware of the language that is often placed on youth, language like “at risk” (has always made me upset”, often in school spaces, I would ask “at risk for what?” The authors instead take up the term “in risk” and also point out that in many ways the very institutions that should be empowering Black girls are same institutions that push them out. Grounded in Black feminists epistemologies, the research conducted by these women came up with four common practices of Black girls, the first is that Black girls are always resisting, the second is that their transnational identities are unique and complicate the narrative of Black girls and how they know and be. Third, Black girls are deeply immersed and loyal to their friends and family (sometimes to a fault, I know this all too well) and last, Black girls are embody Black feminisms centering and naming themselves for themselves. 

All and all, Black girls are not a monolith and in order to support Black girls in and out of schools we must commit to “seeing” them as individuals. Black girls are worthy and sacred! 

[i-mpower]

I believe in affirming the little girl inside. Today, I want to affirm the little girl inside of @kamalaharris as I see her and she is wonderful. • • Little Kamala, Dream big. Dream really big. Trust me. This I can promise: No matter the outcome, the world will know your name and you will go down in history books. And please, remember this: you’re already enough. Everyone won’t like you, and that’s ok. You will make decisions that will make some people proud and some people upset. Yet still, you’re enough. You’re beautiful. You’re smart. You’re courageous. Sincerely, a voting adult from the future. • • Big Kamala, get it done. • • • #kamalaharris #election2020 #bidenharris2020 #littlegirls #affirmblackgirls #blackgirlhood #vote #vote2020 #election2020 #harrisbiden ~ Thank you @porshanality https://www.instagram.com/p/CDzA5Inp5h6/?igshid=2z1mjqs6rdzo

[tina-abena-oforiwa]

"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life."

Caption: Pablo Neruda

Image: Tina Abena Oforiwa

[mahablack]

#BlackGirlhood #BlackGirlsMatter #BlackGirlMagic #OriginalGirl (at Columbia, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0_z78GFZfv/?igshid=17fuklcyspzih

[charmstrongbooks]

So excited to see this starred review! It’s on my list to read soon! Check it out! . #Repost @forblackgirlslikeme with @get_repost ・・・ ⭐️FOR BLACK GIRLS LIKE ME has received its second starred review & this time from Booklist! ⭐️ . . . . . . #forblackgirlslikeme #starredreview #booklist #debutauthor #weneeddiversebooks #ownvoices #adopteevoices #adopteestories #adoptionnarrative #transracialadoptee #transracialadoption #blackwomanhood #blackgirlhood #blackgirlmagic #middlegradelit #kidlit #novel19s #farrarstrausgiroux https://www.instagram.com/p/Bypil_LAL9z/?igshid=61njsji87qpl

[krystalpheonixchild]

"Lotus flower bomb, firefly When I’m low, she take me high I can teach you all the sounds of love" #blackgirlmagic #floral #rosegold #instacutie #instabeauty #blackgirlhood

[africaforecast-blog]

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AND you can view Deborah Robert's work love and in person at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art through May 19, 2018z. #DeborahRoberts #EvolutionofMimi #SpelMuse #BlackGirlHood #BlackBeauty #BeYourOwnMuse #Repost @jenkinsjohnsongallery ・・・ Congratulations to Deborah Roberts for her feature in New York Magazine’s Spring Fashion Issue, “A Portfolio by Multimedia Artist Deborah Roberts.” The ten page spread includes new collages by Roberts who collaborated with @nymag for the fashion issue, dressing her subjects in clothes from spring collections. . The feature includes text written by Amy Larocca. She calls these subjects her “break-through women” and imagines them as the future of the girls she typically depicts.” . Roberts comments on her subjects, “These women, they broke through! They told Misty Copeland she was too short, too old. She broke through! Rosa Parks sat down and didn’t get up. She broke through!” . . . . . . . . . . . @rdeborah191 #DeborahRoberts #jenkinsjohnsongallery #jenkinsjohnsonprojects #newyorkmagazine #authenticity #blackart #womenartists #identity #springfashion #mixedmedia

[hercelluloidself-blog]

Sucking up all this #Blackness on warm #Inglewood days with that @nikitagale. #BlackGirlhood #BlackWomanhood #Sethe #JamaicanPatty #Plantain #Home (at Simply Wholesome Health Food Store & Restaurant)

[kellicoles]

It’s here!!! My first peer-reviewed journal article has been published in the Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice in Volume 9, Issue 3. Check it out! And please let me know what you think. Thank you!

[itshousmansradicalbookshop]

Come join us tmrw evening to celebrate poetry with @sianaarrgh tickets on eventbrite #blackwomanhood #blackwomen #blackbritain #sierraleone #blackgirlhood #blackfeminism #poetryathousmans

[nascentthoughts2]

Identity in Formation

Today I read a piece on the ways in which Black girls form identity in independent schools. I have been thinking a lot about the ways in which the experiences of Black girls differ across K12 settings. Independent schools are different from urban public schools are different from rural public schools are different from catholic/private schools. Thus, it is important to keep in mind that Black girls identity formation in independent schools are different than Black girls in other K12 settings. When thinking deeply about this and how we approach solutions to support Black girls in the ways they need to be supported we must always consider context. Context provides nuance and forces researchers, practitioners, and teacher educators to think about the ways in which Black girls intersecting identities are the same in some situations, yet different in others. This researcher examined Black girl critical literacies in independent schools. Her first study spanned over a significant amount of time, allowing her to get to know the Black girls (who she refers to as experts) of their own experiences. Grounded in the work of Collins, hooks, and Brown, the researcher has gleaned that the experiences of Black girls in predominantly white independent schools are different than that of other Black girls in other contexts. Her Black girl critical literacy framework focuses on Black girls’ emotional literacy, agency, activism, and development of critical consciousness. In her conversations with Black girls she suggests that these are for themes that are the precipice for understanding how to create space and place for Black girls to thrive in independent school settings. In addition, she also grounds her assertions and understandings of how Black girls epistemologies and ontologies are taken up by Brown (2013), who suggests that Black girls have a vision, are inventive, have expansive vision beyond their identity, have a sense of radical courage and interdependence, and a praxis that manifest as a result of their action and reflection. It must be said that Black girls are always vigilant and that they are always reading the world, as the world is always reading them. I think this researchers perspective and attention to Black girl critical literacies is an important take. Though Black women and girls are often on the periphery of the conversation, placing their experiences in the center of the conversation helps us to support difference in difference amongst Black girls. We are not a monolith.  

[atoubaa]

Los Angeles (California, 1985) - Eli Reed 

[triunfo-di-sablika]

Fuga huntu ku felisidat, hui pa forsá un mundu nobo liber den un plantashi putri. Eskoltando e strea nort for di inhustisia hubenil. Krimen gubernamental organisa no por prospera.

Ta bosnan a frakasa Ta bosnan a krea skolnan pober i riku barionan margina laga nan kai den un trektu di tormenta matansa sosial organisa pa plaka brutu migrando pa un mundu mahestuoso algu natural feu siglonan atras sanger ta kuri, kurason ta galopando na un universo libera, ta liber e ke ta ta liber e ta Niki pabo Lo mi triunfa Niki pa boso tur Triunfamentu tin