"Around the world, girls know how to perform. In this book, scholar-activist Crystal Leigh Endsley explores the gaps and overlaps between the lived realities of girls and popular representations of global girlhoods, as expressed through spoken word poetry. Girls from New Jersey, Illinois, South Carolina, and Louisiana to Zanzibar, South Africa, Ethiopia, and more use spoken word poetry as an effective tool in their pursuits of meaningful connection with each other and for access to social justice at the crossroads of global ...
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"Around the world, girls know how to perform. In this book, scholar-activist Crystal Leigh Endsley explores the gaps and overlaps between the lived realities of girls and popular representations of global girlhoods, as expressed through spoken word poetry. Girls from New Jersey, Illinois, South Carolina, and Louisiana to Zanzibar, South Africa, Ethiopia, and more use spoken word poetry as an effective tool in their pursuits of meaningful connection with each other and for access to social justice at the crossroads of global girlhood. Through studying the process of creating, performing, and sharing spoken word poetry as a spiritual practice, this book explores how girls, and marginalized girls in particular, are already forecasting what is possible for their collective lives. Grounded in her experience of "putting a mic in the margins" by facilitating spoken word poetry workshops for girls all over the world, Endsley uses a combination of poetry, discourse analysis, photovoice, and more to forge the feminist theory of "quantum justice," which traces the transnational relationships of girls with their global counterparts and produces trajectories of social change at the micro level"--
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