Empowering Young Minds: Representation and Social Justice in Children’s Literature with Gwendolyn Wallace
“Join host Brittney Carey in a captivating conversation with Gwendolyn Wallace, a distinguished researcher and children’s literature author, as they delve into the transformative impact of representation and authentic diversity in early childhood education. In this episode, they explore the intersection of children's literature, social justice, and critical thinking, emphasizing the vital role of literature in shaping young minds.”
Act Two: Imagining Radical Play with Gwendolyn Wallace
Tune in to hear an interview with Gwendolyn Wallace.Together [Black Her Stories and Wallace] dive into nuances of navigating strong emotions, the insightful moment that motivated her to write the book, and how Wallace’s early childhood experience informed the Light that She Feels Inside.
Act One: Expressing Emotions with Nina Simone and Gwendolyn Wallace
In this episode, [Black Her Stories] dips [their] baby toes into a conversation with Gwendolyn Wallace. Gwendolyn Wallace is a New York City-based researcher, storyteller, and children’s literature author. Her work for both children and adults centers Afrodiasporic voices to explore the unfolding relationship between the spatial logics of colonialism and our body-minds.
Joy Takes Root and The Light She Feels Inside with Gwendolyn Wallace
“Gwendolyn Wallace is a gardener, a student, a teacher, a historian, and the author of two new works of illustrated children’s literature. Joy Takes Root, and The Light She Feels Inside (both published this year) are works grounded in the human impulse to garden…”
Episode 7: Joy Takes Root with Gwendolyn Wallace
“Who better to help us imagine new worlds than kids, who have the biggest and brightest imaginations? And so I really wanted to write a book about socio-emotional learning for kids that took them out of their own head and asked ‘What is going on in my community? What is going on with the world around me? How can I make change? How do I find role models?’”
On being just to children with Gwendolyn Wallace
“This week, we're picking up a question that was lingering from our conversation with Layli: how do we know when we’re being unjust to children? In today’s episode, we’ll be speaking to Gwendolyn Wallace, a children’s book author, about how injustice is baked into the way we see and engage children, and how we can learn to be more just in our interactions with them.”