Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood

Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood (Dissident Feminisms)

This volume examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space for the creative performance and expression of Black girlhood and how this creativity informs other realizations about Black girlhood and womanhood. Founded in 2006 and co-organized by the author, SOLHOT is an intergenerational collective organizing effort that celebrates and recognizes Black girls as producers of culture and knowledge. Girls discuss diverse expressions of Black girlhood, critique the issues that are important to them, and create art that keeps their lived experiences at its center.
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Drawing directly from her experiences in SOLHOT, Ruth Nicole Brown argues that when Black girls reflect on their own lives, they articulate radically unique ideas about their lived experiences. She documents the creative potential of Black girls and women who are working together to advance original theories, practices, and performances that affirm complexity, interrogate power, and produce humanizing representation of Black girls' lives. Emotionally and intellectually powerful, this book expands on the work of Black feminists and feminists of color and breaks intriguing new ground in Black feminist thought and methodology.
Country USA
Brand University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer University of Illinois Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780252079498
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer	University of Illinois Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780252079498
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood (Dissident Feminisms)

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