All Abstracts

In 2017, Georgetown University’s Law Center published a groundbreaking report entitled Girlhood Interrupted that analyzed how the “adultification” of young Black girls has contributed to further racial inequities in schools through violent discipline practices which ultimately culminate in...

  This research will explore the notion that black women grow up learning that it’s our job to defend black men, even if they’re misogynistic or abusive to black girls, as a twisted definition of racial solidarity. The black community is so used to supporting black men due to police brutality, ...

My research investigates how ideological differences within the Black activist community have created a lack of intersectional advocacy in the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM). The dominant narrative, as publicized by both the media and BLM followers, centers cisgendered heterosexual able-bodied Bl...

Black and brown girlhood has rarely been imagined in terms of the "bildungsroman" which has largely been understood as a genre which chronicles a white male protagonist's psychological maturity from child to adult. As such, these particular femme coming-of-age stories have been relegated to the marg...