...Aria S. Halliday Black girlhood exists in a world that is constantly trying to negate it. Black vernacular traditions, too, allow girls to be considered “fast” or “womanish” based on their perceived desire or sexuality. However, Black girlhood studies presents a space where Black girls can claim...

...Montinique Denice McEachern Using Barbara J. Love's four elements of developing a liberatory consciousness, this essay establishes ratchetness as liberatory for Black girls and femmes through exploring the writer's efforts to subvert Black respectability politics in organizing with Black students...

...Alexis Pauline Gumbs Ladeedah is an audio novella that takes place in a Black utopic space after “the improvised revolution.” Ladeedah is a tone-deaf, rhythm-lacking Black girl in a world where everyone dances and sings at all times. What is Ladeedah's destiny as a quiet, clumsy genius in a society...

... formations work (and toward what means and ends) to reproduce the interdependence of black women and girls. 5 Doing the work of SOLHOT allows us to resist, organize, and create new processes of being together as black girls and even more than that. In SOLHOT, those present (with privilege given...