This seminar invitation to Black girl stakeholders—educators, parents, scholars, caretakers, youthful and seasoned Black girls—to expand our capacity to honor how Black girls know and grow. Through personal reflection, written and visual texts, and experimental exercises, we will explore reliability as both an ethical stance and a relational practice—a way of being present to Black girls that insists on us all showing up as people (not the roles we play), playful (not taking ourselves too seriously), curious (not pretending to have all the answers), and vulnerable—willing to show up unpolished and name where tenderness lives.
Over eight weeks, we will examine and rehearse Black girlhood as an “us” orientation.
Each week, we’ll gather to feel, analyze, move, discuss, reflect, pause, and shift. Our flow will be cypher/cyclical-like and consist of part reading/discussion salon, part movement meditation, part re‑visioning lab—where everyone enters as both learner and knowledge‑creator. Light homework prompts offer ways to keep the practice alive between meetings.
Together, we will be curious about and identify insights into the following question: What flourishes from intentional care and study of Black girlhood?