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Papers by Taryrn Brown

Routledge eBooks, Aug 23, 2023

Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2024

In retrospect as both advocate and researcher, I have come to understand how many beliefs go larg... more In retrospect as both advocate and researcher, I have come to understand how many beliefs go largely unexamined and embedded in a dominant discourse that place young mothers' realities in a defi cit model with little to no malleability. Coming from a rural community where several classmates were parents before we graduated from high school, I often stood with and alongside peers who had to combat negative commentary and the stigma of teen parenting. I witnessed how their lives sat constantly under a looking glass and how their decisions and choices were constantly scrutinized as "wrong" or "bad" because their life trajectory did not mirror the dominant narrative. I also witnessed the diff erential treatment ascribed to the girls who became parents, in comparison with the boys who fathered their children: diff erences at the intersections of race, gender, and age that at the time I had no language for articulating in practice. Th is

Journal of Social Issues, Dec 15, 2022

This collaborative auto‐ethnography provides an account of the sociohistorical context of Black m... more This collaborative auto‐ethnography provides an account of the sociohistorical context of Black mothering in the United States and highlights how our complex, intersectional identities as Black‐(other)mother‐scholars shape our cultivation of the homeplace—a place where Black children are nurtured as “subjects, not objects,” in a society that aims to dominate black bodies. Drawing on Black feminism and Black Woman's Geographies, we document how time at home with our children during COVID‐19 allowed for critical dialogue regarding racial injustice and exposure to culturally sustaining educational content endeavored toward resilience building. This work highlights the strength of Black mothers’ collective experiences in fostering resilience amidst crises. Societal implications of COVID‐19 amidst ongoing racial traumas reify the need to reclaim not only our time as Black mothers, but also our voice, agency, and the spaces we cultivate for Black children's liberation. We also discuss recommendations for amplifying Black mothers’ voices in education policy efforts such that schools are better prepared to serve Black children.

Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting, 2021

VUE, 2022

Black women have historically informed educational theory and practice. As Black women who have b... more Black women have historically informed educational theory and practice. As Black women who have been nurtured and sustained by Black women's educational leadership both inside and outside the home, and who mother and "othermother" Black children, we seek to recognize and honor the labor of Black women. Motherwork, a term coined by Patricia Hill Collins, refers to the "reproductive labor" that women of color engage in to ensure the survival of family, community, and self. Black women center their motherwork on Black children by asserting their knowledge and experiences as related to teaching and learning. In this paper, we explore Black mothering as culturally sustaining pedagogy. We also reimagine and dream about our Black children's possibilities for learning. Through this work, we seek to center Black mothers as knowledge bearers and guides for building and sustaining Black children's brilliance and culture. We contend that Black mothering should be of foremost consideration in developing culturally sustaining pedagogy.

Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education

In the legacy of Black womanhood, surviving the loss of a loved one is etched into our blood memo... more In the legacy of Black womanhood, surviving the loss of a loved one is etched into our blood memory. Amidst some of the most unfathomable grief, we, daughters of the dust, are often expected to move forward as quickly as possible (Beauboeuf-Lafontant, 2009; Romero, 2000). Black women and girls have historically had to overcome–or mask–insurmountable losses at intersections of identity, to ensure Black survival (Collins, 2000; Evans-Winters, 2019). I propose a strong Black girl schema (Brown, 2021) to trouble the erasure of lived experience evident in pervasive cultural discourses like strong Black woman schema (Beauboeuf-Lafontant, 2009). Utilizing Sista circle methodology (Johnson, 2015) and extending duoethnography (Sawyer & Norris, 2013) within embodied memory work (Dillard, 2000; Ohito, 2020) and storytelling (Evans-Winters, 2019), this paper extends the future possibilities of grief scholarship centering grieving Black girlhoods. Further, the paper acknowledges the enduring ten...

Journal of Social Issues

This collaborative auto‐ethnography provides an account of the sociohistorical context of Black m... more This collaborative auto‐ethnography provides an account of the sociohistorical context of Black mothering in the United States and highlights how our complex, intersectional identities as Black‐(other)mother‐scholars shape our cultivation of the homeplace—a place where Black children are nurtured as “subjects, not objects,” in a society that aims to dominate black bodies. Drawing on Black feminism and Black Woman's Geographies, we document how time at home with our children during COVID‐19 allowed for critical dialogue regarding racial injustice and exposure to culturally sustaining educational content endeavored toward resilience building. This work highlights the strength of Black mothers’ collective experiences in fostering resilience amidst crises. Societal implications of COVID‐19 amidst ongoing racial traumas reify the need to reclaim not only our time as Black mothers, but also our voice, agency, and the spaces we cultivate for Black children's liberation. We also dis...

Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting

Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting

Routledge eBooks, Jul 5, 2022

Girlhood Studies

Battle, Nishaun. Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls ... more Battle, Nishaun. Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia. New York: Routledge, 2020.

American Educational Research Journal, 2016

This post-qualitative research analyzes the spatialized practices of young people within a workin... more This post-qualitative research analyzes the spatialized practices of young people within a working-class community and how those guided the opening and facilitating of a local community center. Seeing place-making as a social and political act, the authors were inspired by Heath’s classic study and argument that children’s education might be better served if educators understood and built on their community-based language practices. Writing through theories of new materialism, spatiality, and children’s geographies, we build an argument for spatial justice by considering the ways educational scholars and educators might understand and build on children’s community-based spatial practices.

In this session participants will learn how to utilize the pedagogical tool of Curricular Invitat... more In this session participants will learn how to utilize the pedagogical tool of Curricular Invitations to explore critical topics of conversations. It will provide teachers, community educators and parents a great resource that can create safe pedagogical spaces for critical conversation

Routledge eBooks, Aug 23, 2023

Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2024

In retrospect as both advocate and researcher, I have come to understand how many beliefs go larg... more In retrospect as both advocate and researcher, I have come to understand how many beliefs go largely unexamined and embedded in a dominant discourse that place young mothers' realities in a defi cit model with little to no malleability. Coming from a rural community where several classmates were parents before we graduated from high school, I often stood with and alongside peers who had to combat negative commentary and the stigma of teen parenting. I witnessed how their lives sat constantly under a looking glass and how their decisions and choices were constantly scrutinized as "wrong" or "bad" because their life trajectory did not mirror the dominant narrative. I also witnessed the diff erential treatment ascribed to the girls who became parents, in comparison with the boys who fathered their children: diff erences at the intersections of race, gender, and age that at the time I had no language for articulating in practice. Th is

Journal of Social Issues, Dec 15, 2022

This collaborative auto‐ethnography provides an account of the sociohistorical context of Black m... more This collaborative auto‐ethnography provides an account of the sociohistorical context of Black mothering in the United States and highlights how our complex, intersectional identities as Black‐(other)mother‐scholars shape our cultivation of the homeplace—a place where Black children are nurtured as “subjects, not objects,” in a society that aims to dominate black bodies. Drawing on Black feminism and Black Woman's Geographies, we document how time at home with our children during COVID‐19 allowed for critical dialogue regarding racial injustice and exposure to culturally sustaining educational content endeavored toward resilience building. This work highlights the strength of Black mothers’ collective experiences in fostering resilience amidst crises. Societal implications of COVID‐19 amidst ongoing racial traumas reify the need to reclaim not only our time as Black mothers, but also our voice, agency, and the spaces we cultivate for Black children's liberation. We also discuss recommendations for amplifying Black mothers’ voices in education policy efforts such that schools are better prepared to serve Black children.

Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting, 2021

VUE, 2022

Black women have historically informed educational theory and practice. As Black women who have b... more Black women have historically informed educational theory and practice. As Black women who have been nurtured and sustained by Black women's educational leadership both inside and outside the home, and who mother and "othermother" Black children, we seek to recognize and honor the labor of Black women. Motherwork, a term coined by Patricia Hill Collins, refers to the "reproductive labor" that women of color engage in to ensure the survival of family, community, and self. Black women center their motherwork on Black children by asserting their knowledge and experiences as related to teaching and learning. In this paper, we explore Black mothering as culturally sustaining pedagogy. We also reimagine and dream about our Black children's possibilities for learning. Through this work, we seek to center Black mothers as knowledge bearers and guides for building and sustaining Black children's brilliance and culture. We contend that Black mothering should be of foremost consideration in developing culturally sustaining pedagogy.

Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education

In the legacy of Black womanhood, surviving the loss of a loved one is etched into our blood memo... more In the legacy of Black womanhood, surviving the loss of a loved one is etched into our blood memory. Amidst some of the most unfathomable grief, we, daughters of the dust, are often expected to move forward as quickly as possible (Beauboeuf-Lafontant, 2009; Romero, 2000). Black women and girls have historically had to overcome–or mask–insurmountable losses at intersections of identity, to ensure Black survival (Collins, 2000; Evans-Winters, 2019). I propose a strong Black girl schema (Brown, 2021) to trouble the erasure of lived experience evident in pervasive cultural discourses like strong Black woman schema (Beauboeuf-Lafontant, 2009). Utilizing Sista circle methodology (Johnson, 2015) and extending duoethnography (Sawyer & Norris, 2013) within embodied memory work (Dillard, 2000; Ohito, 2020) and storytelling (Evans-Winters, 2019), this paper extends the future possibilities of grief scholarship centering grieving Black girlhoods. Further, the paper acknowledges the enduring ten...

Journal of Social Issues

This collaborative auto‐ethnography provides an account of the sociohistorical context of Black m... more This collaborative auto‐ethnography provides an account of the sociohistorical context of Black mothering in the United States and highlights how our complex, intersectional identities as Black‐(other)mother‐scholars shape our cultivation of the homeplace—a place where Black children are nurtured as “subjects, not objects,” in a society that aims to dominate black bodies. Drawing on Black feminism and Black Woman's Geographies, we document how time at home with our children during COVID‐19 allowed for critical dialogue regarding racial injustice and exposure to culturally sustaining educational content endeavored toward resilience building. This work highlights the strength of Black mothers’ collective experiences in fostering resilience amidst crises. Societal implications of COVID‐19 amidst ongoing racial traumas reify the need to reclaim not only our time as Black mothers, but also our voice, agency, and the spaces we cultivate for Black children's liberation. We also dis...

Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting

Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting

Routledge eBooks, Jul 5, 2022

Girlhood Studies

Battle, Nishaun. Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls ... more Battle, Nishaun. Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia. New York: Routledge, 2020.

American Educational Research Journal, 2016

This post-qualitative research analyzes the spatialized practices of young people within a workin... more This post-qualitative research analyzes the spatialized practices of young people within a working-class community and how those guided the opening and facilitating of a local community center. Seeing place-making as a social and political act, the authors were inspired by Heath’s classic study and argument that children’s education might be better served if educators understood and built on their community-based language practices. Writing through theories of new materialism, spatiality, and children’s geographies, we build an argument for spatial justice by considering the ways educational scholars and educators might understand and build on children’s community-based spatial practices.

In this session participants will learn how to utilize the pedagogical tool of Curricular Invitat... more In this session participants will learn how to utilize the pedagogical tool of Curricular Invitations to explore critical topics of conversations. It will provide teachers, community educators and parents a great resource that can create safe pedagogical spaces for critical conversation