Black Women and Girls Symposium 2024

Black Feminine Play: How Black Femmes, Girls and Women Make Life Sweet

September 20-21, 2024

Divinity School, Wake Forest University

1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem

North Carolina


Sponsored by: MS FoundationUNC Charlotte–Women + Girls Research AllianceWFU School of DivinityWFU Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department


BWGS 2024 Recap




OUR LETTER ON ANTI-BLACK RACISM 


As Diasporic Black women, as Black women who mother, biologically and other, the Collaborative for the Research of Black Women and Girls write this letter in response to state sanctioned violence and anti-Blackness. We affirm the work of African American Policy Forum’s #SayHerName initiative, the Black Visions Collective, the Movement for Black Lives and the broader struggle to build a gender inclusive movement and lift up the voices of all self-identified Black women. We write this letter as we mourn Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmad Arbery, Tony McDade, Rakia Boyd, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Mya Hall, Atatiana Jefferson, Korryn Gaines, Sandra Bland and all the numerous daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, mamas, fathers, cousins, aunties and uncles that we have lost. We mourn! 
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Black Women and Girls symposium is birthed from the collaborative efforts of critical interdisciplinary scholars and activists who are challenged by the types of knowledge produced about and around Black femmes, girls, and women.

Our Collaborative’s larger purpose is to encourage and promote research on Black femmes, girls, and women. As a research-working group, the Collaborative seeks to engage in critical works that complicate the existing narratives of Black femmes, girls, and women and that speak to the heterogeneity of these populations on a global scale.

Our efforts include hosting an annual symposium that brings together a wide spectrum of participants to examine Black femmes, girls, and women’s agency as producers of knowledge and agents of change.
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