2016 Hiphop Literacies Conference
featuring . . .
Gloria Ladson-Billings, Brittney Cooper, Ersula Ore, Lurie Daniel Favors, Mary Weems, Nicole Barnaby, Reverend Yvonne Pointer(Gloria Pointer), Ruth Nicole Brown, Black Girl Genius Crew, Koritha Mitchell, Monique Morris, Roni Burkes, Assata Richards, Stephanie Troutman, Adrienne Dixson, Fran Frazier, Kevinee Gilmore, Aisha Durham, Gwendolyn Pough, Bettina Love, Cynthia Amoah, Mother Nature, Bella Bahhs,
Crystal Endsley, DJ J Rawls, and Jesssica Care Moore
Gloria Ladson-Billings, Brittney Cooper, Ersula Ore, Lurie Daniel Favors, Mary Weems, Nicole Barnaby, Reverend Yvonne Pointer(Gloria Pointer), Ruth Nicole Brown, Black Girl Genius Crew, Koritha Mitchell, Monique Morris, Roni Burkes, Assata Richards, Stephanie Troutman, Adrienne Dixson, Fran Frazier, Kevinee Gilmore, Aisha Durham, Gwendolyn Pough, Bettina Love, Cynthia Amoah, Mother Nature, Bella Bahhs,
Crystal Endsley, DJ J Rawls, and Jesssica Care Moore
The 2016 HipHop Literacies Conference, Black Women and Girls’ Lives Matter, will illuminate issues in the struggle to engender the fight for racial justice.
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The conference aims to ensure that the needs of black and brown girls and women are fully addressed as they continue the fight to dismantle institutional racism and promote healing for collective empowerment of black and brown communities.
Increasing the opportunities for women and girls of color by breaking down the structural barriers that impede success is important to our advancement as a nation. It isn’t just the responsibility of government to institute initiatives to balance the scales or organizations committed to social justice to fight for the disadvantaged. It is all of our responsibilities. The HipHop Literacies Conference is a way to discuss important issues to make real change today so tomorrow’s women and girls of color do not face the same injustices of the past. |
March 30, 2016 |
March 31, 2016 |
8:30 – 9:45 AM
Opening Plenary Panel What needs to happen to make Black women and girls’ lives matter? Dr. E, The Ohio State University-Moderator Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin Dr. Brittney Cooper Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies, Rutgers University Dr. Ersula Ore Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies, School of Social Transformation and Rhetoric, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University 10:00 – 11:15 AM Session 1 (please choose only one) Panel 1: “I know I can” Learn: Black Girls’ Education Matters-MLK Lounge Ms. Halima Alhassan, The Ohio State University - Moderator Sierra Austin, Doctoral Candidate Women’s Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University Dedicated to the girls who think they’re nothing: Excavating and Preserving Black Girl Genius in School-Sanctioned Spaces Maranda Ward, Doctoral Candidate, Curriculum & Instruction, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, The George Washington University #Captionthis: Conceptualizing the Social Media Discourse for Its School-To-Prison Pipeline Implications on Black Girl Bodies, Power, and Space Lawanda Stewart & Amber Harris, The Village Network Columbus Building Resiliency in Young Girls Through Mentoring and Teaching Them Utilizing Concepts of Respect Ashley Newby, Ph.D. Candidate, Michigan State University “You can’t be shy, you just can’t”: An Exploration of How One Black Girl Navigates Her HipHop and Academic Identities Panel 2: “Somos Sur” (We Are the South): Women and Girls in Global Hip-Hop in the Neo-liberal Era--RM 110A Dr. Cynthia Tyson, The Ohio State University - Moderator Jim Schnell, Ohio Dominican University; Brian Schnell, New Albany High “Palestinian Women & Girls Lives Matter: Palestinian Hiphop Rhetorical Depictions of Women & Girls as Public Relations Phenomena” Florencia Cornet, University of South Carolina, Columbia Performing Hip Hop, Performing a ‘Living Culture’: Josefina Báez’s Dominicanish Marjorie Peñailillo, Graffiti School, Chilé & Guisela Latorre, The Ohio State University Graffiti School Community: Urban Art Pedagogies and Collective Appropriations of Public Space 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM Lunch -Welcome Hale Center-MLK Lounge Lurie Daniel Favors, Attorney, Activist, Author Dr. Mary Weems, Author, Poet, Playwright, Activist, Educator 1:00 – 2:15 PM Afternoon Plenary Forum 1-MLK Lounge Mothers of Murdered Black Children Nicole Barnaby, The Ohio State University-Moderator Reverend Dr. Yvonne Pointer (Gloria Pointer), Gloria Pointer Foundation 2:30 – 3:45 PM Session II Panels (please choose only one) Panel 3: “Ladies First” -MLK Lounge Jasmine Burnett, New Voices Cleveland/Pittsburgh We Always Resist: Trust Black Women (Reproductive Rights) Rachel Lee, Rise Sister Rise Trauma, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, and Healing of Black Women and Girl Ashley L. Love, Critical Studies and Early Childhood Education Doctoral Student, University of Georgia #Sayhername: 21st Century Activism and The Hip Hop Feminine Mystique Panel 4: "Play Your Cards"- RM 110A J. Brendan Shaw, The Ohio State University-Moderator Marquita Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of English William Paterson University Cynicism and Rage as Liberatory Affects in Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter Ever Delicia Tiera Greene, Syracuse University We Need More US in Schools!": Centering Black Adolescent Girls' Literacy and Language Practices in School Spaces Seth Davis, Doctoral Candidate, Syracuse University “Can I talk to you for a Second?”: Cruising as a Fearce Literacy and Research Method Samantha Stewart Beloved Trees: Art Activism and the Silencing of Black Woman’s Oppression from the Past to the Eras of Hiphop and Black Lives 4:00 – 5:15 PM Plenary Artist Workshop -MLK Lounge Dr. Carla Curtis, The Ohio State University-Moderator Black Girl Genius Crew This workshop allows us to listen and sense Black girlhood differently, not as stereotype but as a creative sound scape that can literally and figuratively move us towards a greater justice. Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, The University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Jessica Robinson, The University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Porshe Garner, The University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Blair E. Smith, Syracuse University 5:30 – 7:30 PM Dinner, Film Showing and Community Forum-MLK Lounge Treasure: From Tragedy to Trans Justice: Mapping a Detroit Story Written and Directed by Dream Hampton Led by our Stonewall Columbus LGBT Community members This film and forum explicitly illuminates the lives of Black and Brown transgender men and women as important lives to be valued and heard. “Treasure” is a documentary that tells the story of Shelley "Treasure" Hilliard, a 19-year-old transgender woman of color from Detroit whose brutal murder was not tried as a hate crime. |
8:30 – 9:45 AM Opening Plenary Panel-MLK Lounge
Gender and Justice/Criminalization of Women/Girls Dr. Koritha Mitchell, The Ohio State University-Moderator Dr. Monique Morris, Black Women's Justice Institute Ms. Roni Burkes, Warden Ohio Women’s Reformatory Dr. Assata Richards, Sankofa Research Institute, Houston TX 10:00 – 11:15 AM Session 3 Panels (please choose only one) Panel 5: "Back Up" RM 110A Dr. Tanya Saunders, The Ohio State University-Moderator Saidah Isoke, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University Hat 2 Da Back: Negotiations of Gender, Sexuality and Desirability for Hip Hop’s Tomboy Crystal LaVoulle, Georgia State University, College of Education, Department of Middle and Secondary Education Deconstructing the Bad Bitch Barbie Image and other Racialized and Sexualized Representations of Black Women’s Bodies and Images Dr. Patty Cunningham & Jack Brandl, Department of Social Change at the Ohio State University I Wish Those Days Could Come Back Once More: Bringing Back Empowered Female Voices in Rap Music Panel 6: Get InFormation-Risk and Danger in the Lives of Black Girls: Interrogating Sites of Control and Resistance in Popular Culture and Social Media MLK Lounge Dr. Venus Evans-Winters, Illinois State University-Moderator Tiffani J. Smith, Claremont Graduate University “Dancing Dolls—Mississippi’s Hip Hop Feminists” Aria S. Halliday, Purdue University OMG! Look at Her Butt: The Role of Consumption on Twitter/ Instagram in Nicki Minaj's Feminism 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM Lunch Welcome Hale Center Dr. Stephanie Troutman, Associate Professor of English, University of Arizona Dr. Adrienne Dixson, Associate Professor of Education Policy, Univ of Illinois, Urbana 1:00 – 2:15 PM Afternoon Plenary Forum-2 Fran Frazier Placing Black Girls at Promise/Resilience Kevinee Gilmore Aging Out of Foster Care: Vulnerabilities and Needs 2:30 - 3:45 PM Session 4 Panels (please choose only one) Panel 7: Standing in Solidarity With Black Girls to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline-MLK Lounge Dr. Judy Alston, Ashland University-Moderator Ahmad R. Washington, Ph.D., NCC, Assistant Professor, College of Education and Human Development, The University of Louisville Standing in Solidarity with Black Girls to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline Kish Cumi, Doctoral Candidate, Counselor Education and Supervision Holmes Scholar, The University of Louisville Standing in Solidarity with Black Girls to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline Arash Daneshzadeh, Director of Education Programs, Hip Hop Chess Federation, Dean of Student Affairs/Professor of Justice Studies and Early Childhood Education, Laney College, Doctoral Candidate, Educational Leadership, University of California, Davis Standing in Solidarity with Black Girls to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline Panel 8: Performing Justice and Healing Through Creative Hiphop Feminist Arts-Room 110A Dr. Jamila Hunter, Eastern Illinois University-Moderator Sofia Quintero, Writer Centering the Experiences of Black and Brown Women Through Hip Hop Feminist Fiction LeConté J. Dill, DrPH, MPH; Shavaun Sutton, MPH; Bianca Rivera, MPH, SUNY Downstate School of Public Health "Poetry as Her Scream”: Engaging urban Black Girls in Reading and Writing Poetry to Reveal Trauma and Explore Healing Crystal Endsley, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York This Bridge Where I Live: Feminist Arts Collaborations from Campus to Community Health, Education and Welfare of Women and Girls-MLK Lounge Dr. E, The Ohio State University-Moderator Senator Charleta Tavares Infant Mortality 4:00 – 5:15 PM Artists for Social Justice Forum -MLK Lounge (please choose only one) Youth Arts and Social Justice Workshop Facilitators-Tifani Kendrick (D'Light House) and Daniel Gray-Kontar (Replife) Youth Presenters from Champion Middle School, Jelani Steppers, D’Light House Family Center, and Cleveland School of the Arts 5:30 – 7:30 PM Dinner and Hiphop Feminist Education Plenary-MLK Lounge Dr. Treva Lindsey, The Ohio State University - Moderator Dr. Aisha Durham (University of South Florida), Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown (University of Illinois, Urbana/SOLHOT), Dr. Gwendolyn Pough (Syracuse University), Dr. Bettina Love (University of Georgia and Harvard Hiphop Archive Fellow) 8:00 – 9:30 PM Concert/Performances Cynthia Amoah, Mother Nature, Bella Bahhs, Crystal Endsley, Black Girl Genius Crew, DJ J Rawls on the Wheels of Steel Special Guest Star-Jesssica Care Moore! |