#BlackGirlMagic​ (October 15, 2025)

I. Opening

• RRs should be the equivalent of 500 words
• You have a 2-week grace period (3 weeks for RR1) w/o penalty and then D2L turns the work to "0"
• Next week's title has been changed to BlackBoyJoy, once a viral hashtag, like this week's theme. More readings will be uploaded in the next  few days.
• Be sure to check out the slideshows below.
• Pleeeeeease email me selfies you took too! :)
  

Sign-Up Sheet for Hype Panel Presentations

Sample of Undergrad Slide Presentation

PDF of Public-Facing Learning Guide

Link to Course Policies & Processes

II. Congratulations to All &... A Book Give-Away!

Omar & Dr. Montes present at the International Conference of The Curriculum and Pedagogy (C&P) Group, the Mexican Society of Social Psychology (SOMEPSO), and the Network for the Promotion of Health, Education, and Psychosocial Well-Being in Rural and Migrant Communities (CORYMI) in Mexico City!  Congrats!

The 2025 Book Exhibit: Black Speculative YAL & the Lives of Black Youth
(click here for all 30+ books)

Image Source: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/styles-love-brookylns-afropunk-festival/story?id=57426199​

III. #BlackGirlMagic Futures: Curriculum Designers, Teachers, and Daughters

Sarah J, Texas Christian University

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Amanda P, Texas Christian University

Peterson Hype Panel by Amanda P15

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Deja G, Texas Christian University

Groomes HYPE Pres. 2025 - Black Daughterhood Futures by Deja Jade

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In 15 minutes at the end of all presentations, we can discuss any of the following: 

• The questions that your colleagues have framed on their slides
• Any comments and questions that you, as audience, might have

In closing: Are there any points of tension that you think might arise in a public presentation of this content (assume, for instance, that the author/their peoples you cite might be in the room)?

IV. "Chile, A Fox Be Just a Fox": BlackGirl Language and Literacy as Magic-Meets-Survivance
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• Follow along with the oral storytelling, with story-script online (click here), and/or with an available picture book in the classroom (please return at the end of class)
• Complete the hand-out: PARTS I and II ONLY (as you listen or afterwards) [click here for PDF]
• With a partner, share what you both have written. Then, as a team, choose any ONE question to answer from PART III
• We'll end with a whole class discussion

The prolific Black Studies theorist, Fred Moten, argues that fugitivity involves Black people’s refusal to accept unjust standards and oppression. He calls fugitivity a kind of desire and spirit that is always dreaming of escape and transgression even when not achievable. Fugitivity embraces living on the outer edges, plays with what is considered improper, and does not compromise with racist regimes by rendering them as inevitable. Fugitive success is not always about annihilation of anti-black regimes though; it is also about cleverly and joyfully thwarting them from moment to moment (click here for more).