Tammy C. Owens is Assistant Professor of Diasporic Youth Cultures in the School of Critical Social Inquiry at Hampshire College. Broadly, her research examines how Black women and girls in the late nineteenth through twentieth centuries critiqued homogeneous discourses of American childhood, and thus redefined Black girlhood in the United States. Correspondence to: Tammy C. Owens, School of Critical Social Inquiry, Hampshire College, 893 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002, USA. Email: (towens{at}hampshire.edu).

Durell M. Callier is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University and Co-Curator of Hill L. Waters ( (hilllwaters.com)). His current research documents, analyzes, and interrogates Black youth lived experiences as they intersect with constructions of race and queerness. In his research and creative projects, he employs feminist and queer methodologies to research how Black and queer communities broadly defined make use of art and narrative towards knowledge creation, staging critical resistance, and actualizing freedom. Correspondence to: Durell M. Callier, Department of Educational Leadership, Miami University, 304 McGuffey Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, USA. Email: (calliedm{at}miamioh.edu).

Jessica L. Robinson is a doctoral student in the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois. Her research is related to Black girlhood, Black feminist art practice, and new media art making. She works with the collective Saving Our Lives, Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT) and is 1/4 member of the band We Levitate ( (https://soundcloud.com/solhot-next-level)). Correspondence to: Jessica L. Robinson, Institution for Communications Research, College of Media, University of Illinois, 119 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Email: (jlrobinson2{at}gmail.com).