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In Search of Our Tiny Gardens: Adolescent Girl of Color Multiliteracies as Creative Praxis

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT This piece uses Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens as a conceptual framework to highlight the unique ways Girls and Femmes of Color (GFOC) create beauty and life amidst a backdrop of devastating oppression. In doing so, we emphasize the brilliance and beauty of GFOC and their multiliterate practices while also challenging the notion of “art for art's sake.” This work will narrate our material and metaphorical relationship to their mothers' gardens, highlight literature and theory exemplifying GFOC multiliterate “gardening,” and provides vignettes from our research collaboratives with GFOC to highlight their creative and transformative praxis born of their raced‐gendered epistemologies.

Source: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

DOI: 10.1002/jaal.70006

Authors: Grace D. Player, Autumn A. Griffin

Institutions: University of Connecticut, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Language: English

Topic: Literacy, Media, and Education

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,870