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The Rolling Archives is a Black Girlhood Studies Project in motion. This is an educational toolkit with resources that reflect the field of Black Girlhood Studies. Let’s keep this work flowing!

Articles

The world is ours: mapping identity with Black Girl Cartography by Courtney Mauldin & Cierra Presberry

‘Betwixt and between’: literacy, liminality, and the celling of Black girls by Maisha T. Winn

Seeing Black Girls in Their Glory: Cultivating Spaces that Facilitate Black Girls’ Psychological Safety by Misha Inniss-Thompson, Seanna Leath, and Jamelia N. Harris

The Multiple Identities and Literacies of Black Girlhood: A Conversation About Creating Spaces for Black Girl Voices by Detra Price-Dennis, Gholnescar E. Muhammad, Erica Womack, Sherelle A. Mcarthur, and Marcelle Haddix

Black Parade: Conceptualizing Black Adolescent Girls’ Multimodal Renderings as Parades by Autumn A. Griffin

“Black Girl Magic is everything”: Recommendations for cultivating supportive spaces for Black girls by Lauren Mims, Marketa Burnett, Raquel Martin, Seanna Leath, Brooke Harris-Thomas

Journeying: how Black girls make sense of schooling injustice through movement by Jomaira Salas Pujols

“Defining Ourselves for Ourselves” Black Girls Conceptualize Black Girlhood Online by Cierra Kaler-Jones

Critical Contradictions: How Black Girlhood in Schools Complicates Controlling Images by Pharren Miller

Towards an Interdisciplinary Field of Black Girlhood Studies by Tammy C. Owens, Durell M. Callier, Jessica L. Robinson, Porshé R. Garner

On Being at Home With Myself: Blackgirl Autoethnography as Research Praxis by Robin M. Boylorn

Representing Black Girlhood in Brazil: Culture and Strategies of Empowerment by Reighan Gillam

The History of Black Girls and the Field of Black Girlhood Studies: At the Forefront of Academic Scholarship by Crystal Lynn Webster

“One Time for My Girls”: African American Girlhood, Empowerment, and Popular Visual Culture by Treva B. Lindsey

BlackGirl Geography: A (Re)Mapping Guide towards Harriet Tubman and Beyond by Loren S. Cahill

Grieving Black Girlhoods: Black Memory Work in Current and (Re)membered Geographies of Black Girls Who've Experienced Loss by Taryrn T.C. Brown

“What Serves You”: Charting Black Girl Spaces for Wellness through Spirituality, Resistance, and Homeplace by Misha Inniss-Thompson, Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes, Claudine Taaffe, & Taqiyyah Elliott

Where We Live and Be: (Re)Turning to Black Girlhood for Project-Praxes of Otherworld-Making in Educational Research by Tiffany M. Nyachae, Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, Aja D. Reynolds, and S. R. Toliver

Black Girl Ordinary: Flesh, Carcerality, and the Refusal of Ethnography by Savannah Shange

The Pornographer and the Party: Humanism’s sensuous dismemberment of the Black femme body by Zalika U. Ibaorimi

On Black Girlhood by Farah Jasmine Griffin

Black Girl Cartography: Black Girlhood and Place-Making in Education Research by Tamara T. Butler

Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood by Rebecca Epstein, Jamilia J. Blake, and Thalia Gonzalez

Books

Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research: Endarkened Storywork by S.R. Toliver

mourning my inner[blackgirl]child by reelaviolette botts-ward

Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood The Lauryn Hill Reader Edited by M. Billye Sankofa Waters, Venus Evans-Winters, and Bettina L. Love

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique Morris

Black Gurl Reliable Pedagogies of Vulnerability and Transgression by Dominique C. Hill

Making Black Girls Count in Math Education by Nicole M. Joseph

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks

Wayward Lives Beautiful Experiements: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration by Marcia Chatelain

Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans by LaKisha Michelle Simmons

The Global History of Black Girlhood Edited by Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons

Tomorrows Tomorrow by Joyce A. Ladner

Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice by Ashleigh Greene Wade

Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century by Nazera Sadiq Wright

Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship by Aimee Meredith Cox

Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood by Ruth Nicole Brown

Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy by Ruth Nicole Brown

The Black Girlhood Studies Collection Edited by Aria S. Halliday

Black Girls and How We Fail Them by Aria S. Halliday

The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes From Double Dutch to Hip-Hop by Kyra D. Gaunt

Media

These Black Women Were Roller-Skating Way Before TikTok by Tiana Reid

Pariah by Dee Rees

Zaya Wade's Gender Resistance

The Black Studies Podcast ft. Ashley Smith-Purviance

Exploring Hair & Mental Health by Dr. Afiya Mbilishaka on Therapy for Black Girls

Dont Touch My Hair by Solange

Brown Skin Girl by Beyonce

Anxiety by Doechii

Forever by Mara Brock Akil

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“May we always make space to honor the Black girls we knew yesterday, the Black girls we know today, and the Black girls we will meet tomorrow.”

DR. ASHLEY SMITH-PURVIANCE

FOUNDER, THE ROLLING ARCHIVES