Attend virtual talk with College students, faculty on Sept. 27

• Date: Wednesday, Sept. 27
• Time: 4:30-5:45 p.m.
• Location: Virtual (register today)

This September, a group of Mary Frances Early College of Education students and faculty will present their work at the University of Alabama College of Education’s Office of Diversity Speakers Series.

“Dear Theory and Other Stories: Recognizing, Refusing, (Re)membering, and (Re)imagining Theory with Black Feminisms” will be presented by College students Jaminque Adams, Nia Mitchell, Deaetta Grinnage, and Tonja Simmons Lee; doctoral student in the School of Social Work Kasandra Dodd; Michele Johnson from the Office of Instruction; and College faculty member Maureen Flint.

This presentation follows narratives and reflections of six Black women and their professor, a white woman, as we grappled with theory in a qualitative research course. The process of grappling with theoretical texts and sharing stories inspired by the texts created a community of exploring new ways of knowledge-making and dis/uncovering what we already know (knew). Through sharing our stories, we invite participants to examine and unfold their own relationships to and with theory. As McKittrick (2021) encourages, our reading, writing, and thinking practices are couched in our disobedience and refusal to accept what is given to us as knowledge and truth. Grounded in our identities as Black women and a white woman, we wonder how does (did) Black womanness matter in relation to theory and reading theory?