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Our mission i/ribgs-publications2026-04-05T11:00:41-04:00星空无限Joomla! - Open Source Content ManagementBlack Girls Create: Developing a Culturally Responsive Maker Program for Black Girls2021-06-14T19:33:23-04:002021-06-14T19:33:23-04:00/Journal-Publications/black-girls-create-developing-a-culturally-responsive-maker-program-for-black-girlsErika Zhang<p><img src="/images/stories/journalpub/black-girls-create-candid.png" width="224" height="149" alt="black girls create candid" style="margin: 10px 10px 0px 0px; float: left;" />Afterschool programs are a significant vehicle for increasing STEM interest, confidence, and capacity in underrepresented students. According to the Coalition for Science After School, effective afterschool programs provide relevant, hands-on opportunities for underrepresented youth to interact with relatable scientific role models, content knowledge, and resources.</p>
<p>This article describes the development and pilot implementation of a culturally responsive maker afterschool program for Black girls. The pilot of <a href="/#black-girls-create-fall-2019-hands-on-program">Black Girls Create</a> used social history, culturally responsive pedagogy, and mentoring to engage Black girls in maker-based activities as they learned about Black women who made significant impacts in STEM. By the end of the program, girls had used their new maker skills to design and create cultural artifacts and to conduct digital fabrication demonstrations. This article highlights the program design, pilot program outcomes, and successes and challenges associated with the pilot implementation.</p>
<p> </p><p><img src="/images/stories/journalpub/black-girls-create-candid.png" width="224" height="149" alt="black girls create candid" style="margin: 10px 10px 0px 0px; float: left;" />Afterschool programs are a significant vehicle for increasing STEM interest, confidence, and capacity in underrepresented students. According to the Coalition for Science After School, effective afterschool programs provide relevant, hands-on opportunities for underrepresented youth to interact with relatable scientific role models, content knowledge, and resources.</p>
<p>This article describes the development and pilot implementation of a culturally responsive maker afterschool program for Black girls. The pilot of <a href="/#black-girls-create-fall-2019-hands-on-program">Black Girls Create</a> used social history, culturally responsive pedagogy, and mentoring to engage Black girls in maker-based activities as they learned about Black women who made significant impacts in STEM. By the end of the program, girls had used their new maker skills to design and create cultural artifacts and to conduct digital fabrication demonstrations. This article highlights the program design, pilot program outcomes, and successes and challenges associated with the pilot implementation.</p>
<p> </p>#MeToo: Sexual Violence, Race, and Black Girls Matter2019-11-06T16:12:04-05:002019-11-06T16:12:04-05:00/Journal-Publications/metoo-sexual-violence-race-and-black-girls-matterElyssa Conley<p>When activist and sexual assault survivor Tarana Burke coined the phrase 鈥淢e Too鈥 in 2006, she aimed to raise awareness of the pervasive sexual violence that women and girls, particularly women and girls of color, face in U.S. society. More than a decade after 鈥淢e Too鈥 was first used, the #MeToo Movement took the world by storm.</p>
<p>In a special 鈥淢e Too鈥 issue of the journal Rejoinder from the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, 星空无限 researchers LaShawnda Lindsay, Ph.D., research scientist, Linda M. Williams, Ph.D., senior research scientist and director of the Justice and Gender-Based Violence Research Initiative, and Judith Jackson-Pomeroy, Ph.D., research associate, explore how Black women and girls are coping with sexual violence and whether social media movements like #MeToo show the nuances of the lives of Black women and girls who survive sexual violence.</p>
<p>Citation: Lindsay-Dennis, L., Williams, L.M., Pomeroy, J.J. (2019) #metoo: Sexual Violence, Race, and Black Girls Matter. <i>Rejoinder</i> (a publication of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University.)</p><p>When activist and sexual assault survivor Tarana Burke coined the phrase 鈥淢e Too鈥 in 2006, she aimed to raise awareness of the pervasive sexual violence that women and girls, particularly women and girls of color, face in U.S. society. More than a decade after 鈥淢e Too鈥 was first used, the #MeToo Movement took the world by storm.</p>
<p>In a special 鈥淢e Too鈥 issue of the journal Rejoinder from the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, 星空无限 researchers LaShawnda Lindsay, Ph.D., research scientist, Linda M. Williams, Ph.D., senior research scientist and director of the Justice and Gender-Based Violence Research Initiative, and Judith Jackson-Pomeroy, Ph.D., research associate, explore how Black women and girls are coping with sexual violence and whether social media movements like #MeToo show the nuances of the lives of Black women and girls who survive sexual violence.</p>
<p>Citation: Lindsay-Dennis, L., Williams, L.M., Pomeroy, J.J. (2019) #metoo: Sexual Violence, Race, and Black Girls Matter. <i>Rejoinder</i> (a publication of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University.)</p>