However, after working alongside Black boys--including college football players and observing my own sons--I returned the Y in STILE to advance my Black feminist inquiry. I now wonder:
Why is a Black feminist intervention now needed in the College Football Apparatus?
Why are some stories told and others silenced?
Why are some forms of labor celebrated, normalized, and honored, while others get buried?
Why do Black women continue to shoulder institutional burdens instead of the institutions themselves?
STYLE re/turns to the Y in these questions--not as functions of simple wonderings, but also imaginings for new possiblities when communities collectively respond together.
Storytelling thru inquiry and literacy expression, aka STILE with an I, began as a space for Black girl rhetorics, literacies, and creative practices. STILE functioned as a safe space for young girls to simply be in community with one another while they explored aspects of their identities and engaged with their social worlds. Inquiry remained important in this work as I asked critical questions to guide my relationship building with young girls to not only be in community with them but also learn alongside them.
STYLE History
Where We Are Today
STYLE offers new methodology--one I call Black Football Feminist Run Game Methodology to describe the ground level labor from Black women in the college football apparatus. We're holding down our men in meaningful ways--and yet, we're denied entry to the very spaces we've helped engineer. BFF Run Game Methodology explains this wide occurance, and also theorizes why Black women must be re/imagined beyond the football field's margins.
Forthcoming article with College English
Pedagogy Reimagined for the Dawg!
Forthcoming Book Chapter