This chapter reflects on how a social justice partnership began between a university professor and the director of Pretty Purposed, a youth-based non-profit organization based in Petersburg, Virginia. Pretty Purposed was designed to help create spaces of justice and creativity for Black girls and girls of color. The authors discuss their collaborative efforts to build a mentorship community collective model to help mentor girls. They also discuss ongoing barriers and challenges often experienced by non-profit directors of color, including a lack of structural resources, and funding from state and federal agencies. As a solution, they emphasize collaborating with relevant and similar non-profit organizations to build and maintain a larger social justice conglomerate of activists to help foster social justice for youth. They also discuss how a community collective model can help build positive interpersonal relationships between Black girls and can positively impact how they shape their perception and identity of Black girlhood.

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Pretty Purposed: A Social Justice Partnership for Black Girls in Virginia, United States

  • Nishaun T. Battle,
  • Bianca Myrick

摘要

This chapter reflects on how a social justice partnership began between a university professor and the director of Pretty Purposed, a youth-based non-profit organization based in Petersburg, Virginia. Pretty Purposed was designed to help create spaces of justice and creativity for Black girls and girls of color. The authors discuss their collaborative efforts to build a mentorship community collective model to help mentor girls. They also discuss ongoing barriers and challenges often experienced by non-profit directors of color, including a lack of structural resources, and funding from state and federal agencies. As a solution, they emphasize collaborating with relevant and similar non-profit organizations to build and maintain a larger social justice conglomerate of activists to help foster social justice for youth. They also discuss how a community collective model can help build positive interpersonal relationships between Black girls and can positively impact how they shape their perception and identity of Black girlhood.