Illuminating Perspectives through Critical Visual Literacy: 56th Annual IVLA Con

In the United States, young Black girls and Black women are constantly misperceived through distorted societal visions that obscure their raced-gendered identities, diminish their agency, and erase their lived experiences. In this talk, I present the intersectional multimodal analysis framework as a critical practice of looking that illuminates the brilliance, beauty, and humanity of young Black girls and women. In the first part of the talk, I explicate how the intersectional multimodal analysis framework helps us to fully “see” young Black girls and Black women through critical readings of their visual art (e.g., photographs, digital collages, drawings). In the second part, I invite engagement with the intersectional multimodal analysis framework through a curated gallery walk of visual imagery created by and for young Black girls and women.