We are three diverse women scholars who currently teach, research, and practice in Hawaii and California, USA. Our collective met through our shared interest in guiding Courageous Critical Conversations with teachers and young children in elementary school settings--conversations about justice-related topics such as immigration, colonization, race, and gender. We have now worked together for over four years, leading six successful workshops, writing three manuscripts, and presenting at seven conferences together, as well as supporting one another through our academic journeys toward promotion and tenure and personal journeys such as the growth of our respective marriages and children. We have developed close collegial relationships that are also deeply intrapersonal–rooted in our social justice beliefs, our senses of humor, and our senses of place and self. These relationships allow us to explore our own systems of bias, to question one another, and to hold each other accountable as we seek to engage in anti-racist and culturally responsive practices.

We now metacognitively examine the work we do with students, teachers, and each other. In this presentation, we explore a chapter of a proposed manuscript that looks reflexively at our intersectionalities in a critical mirror: de-/re-composing and critiquing our individual and shared identities, choices, and belief systems as they relate to the work we do to dismantle systemic injustice and oppression. As critical women scholars from diverse backgrounds, we are more than the sum of our intersectionalities, and when our collective looks in the mirror, our reflexive critical work takes wings

Authors:
Lisel Murdock-Perriera, Sonoma State University, United States
Rosela Balinbin Santos, University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States
Rayna Fujii, University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Lisel Murdock-Perriera is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Studies at Sonoma State University in California, USA.

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