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Hello, April. So if you could please introduce yourself with your name, your pronouns, your age, and the organizing or cultural work that you do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=1.0,13.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"April Bell  \n\nMy name is April Bell. I use she her pronouns. I turned 50 this year. And I am a Black woman researcher who focuses on Black adolescent women and girls, bodily autonomy, sexual autonomy and positive sexuality.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=13.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins  \n\nOh, that's incredible. Well, thank you for joining us today. And so our first question is what led you to Black feminism?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=30.0,38.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"April Bell\n\nI think I was led to Black feminism by watching what was going on in my community. And some of the sessions today we heard people talking about Black women doing all the work and not getting the credit for it. I didn't know it was feminism though. Because you know, where I was raised in Northwest Indiana. Feminism was for white people. And so it wasn't a thing that we said about Black people on so when I got to college, is when I realized, Oh, no Black people can be feminist too. And all that stuff that people were was doing when I was growing up, that was feminism. So I think it was always there. I just didn't have the words for it. And then I made a conscious decision when I was in college to embrace Black feminism. But that's when people were talking about I'm not a feminist. I'm a womanist, you know, and so I just thought, well, if we're all in this together, it doesn't really matter if it's womanist or feminist, I mean, some people it didn't matter. But I just I made a conscious decision then to try to center Black women in the work that I do. And in the conversations that I have, tried to be more conscious of not running people down and engaging in respectability politics, I grew up in the church. So that was a very, very, very, very strong influence on things I had a lot of unlearning to do. As I came into Black feminism, which also set me up with some conflicts with my family and my parents, especially because they came from rural Alabama. And I was I had a very southern upbringing, but in the north, so there was a lot of pushback there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=38.0,139.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins  \n\nAnd are you still in the church?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=139.0,141.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"April Bell \n\nNo.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=141.0,142.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins\n\nNo. Okay. And so I'm curious about was there something significant in your journey to feminism that made you like, I have to identify with Black feminism, I know, there was like a kind of push pull, there's like, feminism and womanism happening, but like, what made you say, I am a Black feminist.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=142.0,164.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"April Bell  \n\nI think recognizing the power of Black women, when Black women decided we're going to do something, it happens. I also spent a lot of time working outside of the country in Sub Saharan Africa, and just seeing Black women there, doing the same sort of work, still not getting credit, it became like more of a global thing for me, and just to say, to claim it, and to talk about it with people, because when I talked about it with my nieces, they were, you know, still of this mindset that feminism for white people. And so just having me as an example, and then bringing in other examples of people I know, and talking more about feminism and what it means and not just, you know, it's not just bra burning, and whatever that you see in history books. So I think that is also what pushed me to more firmly embrace it. Because I wanted to make it clear to my nibblings, all of them that I'm a Black feminist. This is what Black feminism looks like. It's not some foreign entity. It's not something that's just for white people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=164.0,234.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins \n\nAnd so, I'm curious about what Black feminist future are you building?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=234.0,242.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"April Bell  \n\nWell, the goal of my work, and the other things I'm doing in my life is to help create a world where Black girls are free. Again, my research focuses on Black adolescent girls. And there's a lot of research that talks about college age women and older, sort of, in the session earlier somebody said grieving their childhoods grieving their girlhood. And there's a lot about that. So in my work, I focus on starting earlier, how do we set things up so that people can enjoy their girlhood and that we give Black elders the tools to help these girls enjoy their girlhood because a lot of the joy that's constrained in Black girl that comes from our own elders. I mean, yes, the wider society, but also within our community. There's a lot of policing of girls Girls bodies. Speech. Their looks, their educational attainment. There's a lot of constraint there. So my goal, my wish is that for a future for, for that, that allows Black girls to really be free.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=242.0,316.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=316.0,316.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And my last question is, I'm curious about, what else are you hoping to get out of the conference this weekend?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=316.0,326.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"April Bell  \n\nPart of the reason I wanted to come to the conference is to just have like, some solidarity, and to get some, like to get some restoration, you know, just like this work and doing this work is depleting. You know, I have a youth advisory board that helps me figure out like my research projects and like that, which way I'm going to lean into them. And hearing the stories that they bring to the table about why they even want to be involved in this is sad to me, because these kids are 14 to 17. And so much has not changed since I was that age. And it can be really depleting. I mean, they also have a lot of hope. So then it's also hopeful. But coming here, I hope to get to just feel a little bit more restored, and to find more people who are doing this kind of work. I'm in a very white institution. And so there's not a lot of us who are there and then there's certainly not a lot of us who are trying to do this work. So really want to find some allies in that way. And then lastly, just to hear more about how other people are engaging with the youth, because I want to learn, I want to learn, you know better ways to be more engaged and to be more mindful and all of those things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=326.0,404.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins  \n\nThat's beautiful. Thank you so much, April.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=404.0,408.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572/transcript/94398/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"April Bell  \n\nThank you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151063/file/278572#t=408.0,410.231"}]}]}]}