black girlhoodS curriculum

(TRADEMARKED | VOLUME 1 AVAILABLE)

Justice for Black Girls recognizes education as a site of liberation and refuses the ongoing erasure, suppression, and miseducation of Black girlhood. Through our Black Girlhoods Curriculum, we create space for Black girls to study, remember, question, and honor the histories, brilliance, resistance, and becoming of Black girls across generations.

Our curriculum is dedicated to eight Black girls whose lives and legacies continue to inform our work and collective responsibility to Black girls. Though too often excluded from dominant narratives of the Civil Rights Movement, Gail Etienne, Ruby Bridges, Leona Tate, and Tessie Prevost courageously integrated schools on November 14, 1960, transforming the landscape of education in this country while still children themselves. We also honor Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, and Carole Robertson, whose lives were stolen in the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963.

We name them intentionally because Black girls have always been architects of freedom, even when the world refused to recognize them as such. Their lives, resistance, brilliance, and humanity remain deeply embedded in the foundation of our work, reminding us that the fight for Black girlhood, safety, education, and liberation has always required both remembrance and action.

UNIT 1: Identity, Intersectionality & Introduction to Black Girlhood Studies

UNIT 2: Justice for Black Girls- Systems Change (Critical Examination of Adultification, School Pushout & Abolitionist Education)

UNIT 3: Beads, Bows & Barrettes- Beauty, Hair & Fashion Activism (Critical Examination of Colorism, Texturism, Respectability)

UNIT 4: Blackgirl Healing, Safety & Liberation