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?
About The Facilitator
Dr. Dominique C. Hill (zo/she) moves at the intersections of art, storytelling, and embodied learning. A transdisciplinary thinker and maker, zo’s work traces the living edges of Black girlhood and Blackqueer intimacy through performance, writing, and collective engagement. Grounded in vulnerability as a shared practice, Hill explores how people learn, love, and transform at the borders of identity, place, and power.
Zo teaches and creates with students and communities while also writing books that blend cultural memory, practices of liberation, and critique, including This Unruly Witness: June Jordan’s Legacy (2025) and Black Gurl Reliable (2025). As a co‑visionary of Hill L. Waters (HLW), a Blackqueer feminist collective, Hill helps cultivate spaces where lived experience becomes a pathway to connection and knowing. Her work is informed by training in multiple somatic approaches, including trauma‑informed practices that center care, invitation, and choice in how and at what pace people participate
Hill’s performance project Erotic Rupture has been supported by artist fellowships and residencies across New York State, including Millay Arts and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Shaped by generations of women and kin grounded in prayer, libation, and communal care, Hill’s work is rooted in the belief that presence is pedagogy—and that intimacy can be a technology for liberation.
For more info, refer to https://www.dominiquechill.co/.