If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression. —Combahee River Collective
Dr. Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton
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#BlackMotherscholar | FirstGen 🇳🇬 | Cofounding editor @blackeducology | Black Feminist Thought | Black Educational Research | Stanford GSE | https://linktr.ee/Teachlove Read my first book: https://tinyurl.com/Articulations1
Halftime “You think I'd go hoarse for a player with no potential? When I ignore you...then you worry.” —Coach Davis, Love & Basketball 3rd Quarter: Black Women Educators and the Pivot Embodied by Angel Reese, A’ja Wilson, and Naphessa Collier link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pivot Pedagogy: Stepping Through, Around, and Beyond the Permanence of Anti-Blackness from the WNBA to the Classroom - The Urban Review
Both the WNBA and education are indebted to Black women, yet their contributions are obfuscated in botharenas. Women’s basketball is a key site where structural and cultural violence are inherent to, ...
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We Always Rebound: Angel Reese and Black Women Educators link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pivot Pedagogy: Stepping Through, Around, and Beyond the Permanence of Anti-Blackness from the WNBA to the Classroom - The Urban Review
Both the WNBA and education are indebted to Black women, yet their contributions are obfuscated in botharenas. Women’s basketball is a key site where structural and cultural violence are inherent to, ...
link.springer.com
So I said I was tired of the discourse about NHJ and I am. But I am also astonished at the number of people who are certain their choice is better. Because the parenting report card isn't in yet and baby, some of your kids will be asking why you made them go to a racist school based on test scores
As a former Division 1 athlete and secondary educator, when I saw the call for “Pedagogies of the Court: Basketball, Education, and Worldmaking” I had to respond!! Open access 🔗: link.springer.com/article/10.1... PDF 🔗: rdcu.be/7c8wS7Sx2Sya
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." —Steve Biko
Sitting on my grandma’s porch, getting my “hair did,” I learned everything that I ever needed to know about being a girl on the south side of Chicago (Evans-Winters, 2019, p. 28)
"Derived from the Latin word 'transformare," meaning to go beyond what has been formed, Black women educators can create, transmit, and initiate substantial, profound, and fundamental change. We are Transformers in the sense that we are conduits of liberatory energy.
The use of “endarkened” as language is intentional and disrupts dominant articulations, particularly enlightenment, which has been traditionally used to communicate new learning and insight of white feminism (Stewart, 2025, p. 14)
Black hair is art. Black hair is archive. Black hair is identity. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Articulations, A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy: Redefining Education through Black Women’s Hair Experiences
PDF | There is clarity that to talk about a colleague’s butt, thighs, or bust would be considered inappropriate; but with Black women’s hair, there is... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Attacking Black people to stabilize public education is a tried-and-true trick out of the Nixon, Reagan, and Atwater playbooks (Love, 2023, p. 126)
Coaplaying in the academy is out of hand …
Repost: This article is a testament to sisterhood, love, & sweet-ferocious audacity. As 1st-year Black women educators entering higher ed, we navigated expected & unexpected challenges…we were intentional about carving out sacred space to vent, analyze, & (re)member. shorturl.at/3jn2U
We be audacious: blackgirlwomen educators making space where there ain’t none, being subversive & staying black
As Black women educators, we argue that for us to be audacious, we had to embody our ancestors’ boldness amid oppression and use our intersectional strengths to disrupt systemic barriers. Guided by...
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Endarkened photovoice reminds us that the person behind the camera is just as important as the images presented in the photograph (Stewart, 2025).
Black Community Action Research argues that Black people can produce knowledge in an iterative process that centers healing and action. This framework operates on five core tenets of vulnerability, testifying, creativity, witnessing, and agency.
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Campbell remind us that through Ethnic Studies, we, as humans, can find it easier to love as it empowers communities toward social change. In a world full of the physical, spiritual, and mental violence often targeting Black women, any praxis that creates an easier pathway to love is where it’s at.
“They did everything they could to stop our sun from shining, but I’m still here. A sun that just kept rising” —Cebo Campbell
In telling…and listening… we know the ancestors we’ve never met. Their heartbeats reverberate in our minds, and we see images of their faces because they’re not just these lifeless things. They are alive within us… within the telling. —Stephanie Toliver
Women’s basketball, specifically the WNBA, is a key site where structural and cultural violence are inherent to, and reproduced through, socially constructed systems of inequality, making it a theoretical space to understand Black women’s experiences broadly.
🎧 NOW IN AUDIO: Listen to Articulations: A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy: Redefining Education through Black Women’s Hair Experiences 🙌🏾 ✨ If you haven’t had time to sit and read, please check out the audible. Listen and drop a review. ✨ Link 😉 www.audible.com/pd/B0H9MCFXR...
I created moisturized and wrapped healing circles to provide protection for Black women that worked to absorb the daily damage done in society and extractive research methods.
This WNBA season illuminates the structural and cultural violence of anti-Blackness embedded in the institution and how Black women pivot and thrive anyway.
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Social justice is LOVE applied to systems, policies and cultures- Bernice King
A Coarse Reading Guide 🔗 shorturl.at/MPqoU to support your unearthing of hair tales, encourage the exploration of Black hair as a living archive, and examine it as a site of oppression and liberation. We offer this guide to support your journey through the book “Articulations” 🔗 shorturl.at/walK9
