This field of Black girls' and women's health (BGWH) science is both transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary. As such, the contributors to this edited collection offer a unique lens to BGWH science, expanding our collective scientific worldviews. The contributing authors draw upon their ontological and epistemological knowledge to formulate pathways and inform methodologies for doing research and praxis to address BGWH. Each contributor draws upon these knowledges and offers the reader a way to better understand how their framing and writing can create change in the health of Black girls and women.
Jameta Nicole Barlow is a community health psychologist and an assistant professor of writing in The George Washington University's Writing Program and Women's Leadership Program.
Philosophies of Blackgirls' and Women's Health Science by Jameta Nicole Barlow Out of Racism, The Scholar by Linda Goler Blount Blackgirl Wellness by LeConte J. Dill The Utility of Love for Black women's Health by Breya Johnson The Stories We Hold: Health Implications of Embodied Narratives of Black Women and Girls From the Ivory Tower by Chinyere Okafor Welcome to the Kitchen Table: Where Stories and Images Center the Lived Experiences of Black Women and Their Bodies by Y. Falami Devoe Lifting As I Climb, Resting When I Need To by Shawn Arango Ricks "If You Can't Relate to Me, How Can You Treat Me?": Centering Black Girls' Voices in Culturally Responsive Health Praxis by Maryam M. Jernigan-Noesi Using the Guided Hair Autobiography for Black Women and Girls as a Health Assessment by Afiya Mbilishaka Breaking the Concrete Ceiling: Shifting and Stress Among Black Women in the Workplace by Danielle Dickens Eluding the White Gaze: Sex Education for Black Girls x Black Women + Femmes by Sara Flowers Black Women Stay Fighting Structural Racism: Other-mothering as Community Praxis by Maranda Ward Our WISH for Black Girls and Women's Health: Women, Intersectionality, Science and Health (WISH) Writing Lab Response by Women, Intersectionality, Science and Health (WISH) Writing Lab: Breya Johnson, Toni Junious, Martha Kakooza, Carlysha Isaac, Juliette Garofolo, Danielle Whyte, Madelyn Stalter The Afterword: ReImagining Black Health by Melicia C. Whitt-Glover, Olivia Affuso, Tambra Raye Stevenson, Jameta Nicole Barlow, Shiriki K. Kumanyika (On Behalf of the Council on Black Health) Index About the Editor About the Contributors
