Welcome to
​Tracing the stream!

A Black Feminist Digital Workspace 
From October 27th thru the 29th of 2022, the Tracing the Stream  Virtual Symposium and correlate graduate courses at the University of Arkansas and Texas Christian University paid homage to the legacy of Jacqueline Jones Royster and her work, Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women. Traces was the first of its kind in the field of rhetoric-composition studies that located Black Feminism as a critical point of origins and praxis. We are continuing in that work with this digital space. 

​This site is co-sponsored by Dr. Eric Pritchard and Dr. Carmen Kynard. Here we fiercely pursue Black feminist research, teaching, and what Alexis Pauline Gumbs calls "community-accountable" activist scholarship. What challenging and necessary questions about what it means (or could mean) to study, teach, and activate Black feminist literacies and rhetorical traditions are YOU re-considering?
Thank you to all who participated in the
​2022 Tracing the Stream Symposium!
 Thank You to Our Symposium Assistants from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Texas Christian University, and the University of Arkansas: Josulyn Brooks, Jackie Chicalese, Caylie Cox, Alexa Davis, Aderinsola Gilbert, Kashema Hutchinson, Lea Lester, Jami Padgett, Mason E. Patterson, Hanna Perry, Ashlee Pilcher, Kelcia Righton, and Natalie Shellenberger (click here for full bios)
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