II. Discussion: " 'Like Signposts on the Road': The Function of Literacy in Constructing Black Queer Ancestors" by Eric D. Pritchard
PART A--- Some key frameworks of literacy for Pritchard:

1. a set of survival techniques (p.30)
2. remedy for negative impact of historical erasure (p.31)
3. life-fashioning (p.32)
4. lived experiences at the intersections of race and queerness (p.32)
5. recovery of the marginalized epistemologies and ontologies from economies of knowledge that overlook them (p.33)
6. ability to read a text against the popular or normative views (p.36)
7. ability to give language to the sense of Black queer identity/authoring of one's self (p.37/p.39)
8. support of later generations through their creation of new texts/ source of power and knowledge for future Black LGBTQ people (p.38/ p.47)
9. critical imagination (p.39)
10. new ways of reading social environments/ new ways of thinking the self (p.40)
11. resistance to monolithic notions of Blackness (p.42)

PART B--- What else can we add?  What changes/revisions can we make to this list of 11 items?

III. Two Small Groups

GROUP A: Janet Mock's Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

• What were key moments in the text for you and why?
• How would you define a LITERACY OF REALNESS in the context of Mock's theories and positions?  (Feel free to come up with a different title than the enlarged words)

GROUP B: Mia McKenzie's Black Girl Dangerous: On Race, Queerness, Class and Gender

• What were key moments in the text for you and why?
• How would you define a BLACK GIRL DANGEROUS LITERACY in the context of McKenzie's theories and positions? (Feel free to come up with a different title than the enlarged words)​​

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III. Whole Class Discussion

1. Where is our thinking now?
2. What happens to notions of LITERACY and SCHOOL when we experience it (albeit, partially) through a BLACKQUEER lens?

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IV.  Framing BlackQueerLiteracies from Joshua Allen's and Stephanie "Najma" Johnson's Locations
How does this counter or extend what we have talked about?

V. HYPE: SHEEBA (5:50pm)
Please choose one of the books for next week.

​Your question next week is simple: In your writing, be as detailed as possible in describing how this book helps build a bigger picture of African American literacies in content and/or form.  What does this text offer your colleagues (all are reading different materials) in terms of challenges, confusions, research processes, paradigms, and/or insights?