All About Black Girl Love in Education

Autumn Griffin is Postdoctoral Research Associate on the NSF-funded Black Girl Brilliance STEM Grant Fellow in the Middle and Secondary Education Department at Georgia State University, USA.Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is Professor in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

• Foreword Introduction: For the Love of Black Girls Section 1: Giving Love Words 1. Written in the Waves: Black Mermaids as Love, Memory, and Writing Muses 2. #ILoveUsForReal: Healing Our Inner Child to Fiercely Love Black Girls in the Community Context 3. Love Is a Revolution: A Conversation with Renée Watson Black Girl Literacy in 3 Parts Section 2: Childhood Love Lessons 4. Returning Home: Exploring How Black Women Use Freedom as Movement 5. Black Feminism in Critical Pedagogy: Daughtering as an Embodied Praxis of Love and Care Best Friend Poem Section Three: Be True to Love 6. Black Girl Love in the Time of Isolation 7. Sustaining Partnerships to Support Black Girls in STEM: The Sexy, The Heavy, and The Complexities 8. Cultivating Voices of Black Girls in White Spaces Renewal Section Four: Let Love Be in Me 9. Learning to Love: An Ode to Black Women Educators 10. A Gendered Literacy: The Practice of Caring for and Curating with Young Black Girls 11. A Letter from One of Your Daughters of the Yam A Conversation with Myself Section Five: Divine Love 12. Holy By Our Own: Theorizing Black Girl Divine Love 13. A Place Where Souls Can Rest: Black Girl Freedom, Liberation, and Emancipation 14. Black Girls, Love, and Jesus: Reimagining Restorative Practices in Education Using Biblical Principles the time of pitch Section Six: The Future of Black Girlhood 15. “Dear Sankofa”: (Re)Turning to You, With Love 16. Spirit, Song, and Sisterhood: Sayings of a Sun Goddess Backbones Epilogue The Love and Light of Black Girls

"All about [Black Girl] Love is a transformative journey that will challenge your perceptions, ignite your passion, and inspire a new era of love-centered education for Black girls. In these pages, you will find the Blackprint for a brighter, more inclusive, and profoundly loving present and future that Black Girls deserve."Gholdy Muhammad, Professor and Author of Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction and Co-Editor of Black Girls' Literacies."This book is a bridge between theory and practice, connecting the theoretical orientations that characterize Black girl love to tangible actions in and outside of classrooms. The authors, poets, and artists in this book offer a multifaceted commitment and spiritual guidepost to honoring Black Girl lives."Carmen Kynard, Professor and Author of Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition"The central aims of this groundbreaking work include expanding scholarship on Black girls, who have too often been sidelined in educational discourse, and recentering love in the hearts and minds of educators. With strategies and reflection tools in hand, teachers will be equipped to enhance the educational attainment and sense of belongingness among Black girl youth, both within and outside the classroom."Marc Lamont Hill, Presidential Professor and Author of We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility