To experience joy
Musings on Endarkened Feminisms, Friendship, and Scholarship 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8093176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C B Dillard (0000-0003-0952-7792, Nana Mansa II of Mpeasem, Ghana, West Africa;, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 112-117 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09518398.2018.1533149 |
| OpenAlex | W2912465243 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 4 |
Joy can be defined as a feeling of happiness, well-being, success, or delight (Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joy, 2014). It can also be seen as the source or cause of such delight. However, according to Alice Walker, there is another articulation of joy from an endarkened feminist perspective that speaks to feminist struggles within and against our varied oppressions: ‘Resistance is the secret of joy’ (p. 279). It is from and through Walker’s definition of joy that this paper arises. Written in prose form (what I refer to as ‘musings’), this essay focuses on the possibilities of affirmation, contestation, and expansion in our scholarship when informed by friendship as endarkened feminist praxis. Resisting invisibilities, this piece argues for the power and usefulness of friendship as both principled practice and experience of mutuality, visibility, and shared partnership that bears witness to and embodies joy as a fruitful space of endarkened feminist cultural production and healing
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Feminism · Friendship · Happiness · Oppression · Politics · Power (physics · Praxis · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Witness · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology
Governable Spaces
Making sense of spirituality in our academic lives through co-mentoring
“My representation is performative”
Killing the joy, feeling the cruelty
Count It All Joy
Pausing to witness latinx siblings’ relations in an elementary bilingual program
Something inside so strong
Haciendo rendir
Motherscholaring
We are not broken”
Embracing the Fullness of Black Humanity
Black Students and Positive Racialized Emotions
The Joy of Sociology in an Uncertain Future
Disrupting Three Prominent Racialized Trauma Tropes
I Just Really Like Us”
Breaking Down Barriers
Joy as a technology of resistance and freedom
Well, I'll Be Damned
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |