The Womanist Playground: Making the Classroom a Clearing Space for Wholeness, Solidarity, Liberated Embodiment, and Resistance

The need for the curation of a womanist playground in classrooms is great; it can aid in teaching, being, learning, and existing across difference through inviting persons to critically remember and reflect, deliberately question, creatively and collaboratively imagine, and live into emancipatory hope. This critical consciousness stems from and is deepened by womanist thought’s invitation to embrace self, engage in culture and community, embody God’s love, and to enkindle the world. In this session we will explore and engage in womanist modes of play and strategize how academics can practice and experience more wholeness, solidarity, resistance and embodied liberation, in the classroom, through curating a womanist playground.