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Dr. Stephanie Toliver talks to us about speculative fiction, storytelling, and asking different questions to help us envision a different kind of future in schools. Stephanie is known for her work in Black storytelling and children’s literature, particularly science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres by Black authors. Dr. Toliver has published numerous academic articles and she is the author of Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research: Endarkened Storywork. Stephanie’s work has received many accolades including the Outstanding Dissertation Award for the Arts-Based Educational Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, the Promising Researcher Award from the National Council for Teachers of English, and funding from an American Library Association Diversity Research Grant. Dr. Toliver is an assistant professor of Literacy and Secondary Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is also the curator of the website, www.ReadingBlackFutures.com, where you can read more about her work.

Dr. Stephanie Toliver talks to us about speculative fiction, storytelling, and asking different questions to help us envision a different kind of future in schools. Stephanie is known for her work in Black storytelling and children’s literature, particularly science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres by Black authors. Dr. Toliver has published numerous academic articles and she is the author of Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research: Endarkened Storywork. Stephanie’s work has received many accolades including the Outstanding Dissertation Award for the Arts-Based Educational Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, the Promising Researcher Award from the National Council for Teachers of English, and funding from an American Library Association Diversity Research Grant. Dr. Toliver is an assistant professor of Literacy and Secondary Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is also the curator of the website, <a href="http://www.readingblackfutures.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.ReadingBlackFutures.com</a>, where you can read more about her work.

A Conversation with Stephanie Toliver

In this episode Stephanie Toliver, Assistant Professor of Literacy and and Secondary Humanities at University of Colorado Boulder and lifelong sci-fi nerd chats with Henry and Colin about her experience writing her hybrid PhD dissertation. As part of her PhD, Stephanie got the opportunity to work with the DEEP Center’s Block to Block Program teaching middle-school age black girls how to write science fiction. Her now published dissertation combines the stories written by those girls with theory and methodology to outline how Stephanie centers Black girls in her academic research. In this conversation they discuss how Stephanie’s leading style during the workshop was informed by the girls’ own interests and their storytelling instincts rather than the typical teacher-student model. As a group they engaged with afrofuturist stories from Black authors like Octavia Butler, Sherri L. Smith, Tracie Baptiste, and Nnedi Okorafor and used those stories to inform their own work. In detailing her own process, she explores with the hosts how academia should encourage storytelling, especially for scholars of color, rather than enforcing that they write in a more standard voice and tone. As a professor she encourages educators to use young adult literature to bridge the gap between learning and storytelling and more information about that can be found on her blog readingblackfutures.com. A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Documentary on the DEEP Center’s Block by Block Program: Block by Block's Guide to Resilience 21-22USC Annenberg’s Civic Media FellowshipHenry’s Civic Imagination ProjectOn Spiritual Strivings, Cynthia Dillard’s Book that inspired Toliver’s teaching methodsStephanie’s Blog Post Defining AfrofuturismAfrofuturism Defined Elsewhere:Afrofuturism: From the Past to the Living Present | UCLAA Beginner's Guide To Afrofuturism: 7 Titles To Watch And Read (Essence)How Afrofuturism Can Help the World Mend | WIREDAfrofuturism: From Books to Blockbusters | It's Lit! (PBS)Afrofuturist Texts Mentioned in the Episode: Orleans by Sherri L. Smith Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler The Jumbies by Tracie Baptiste Octavia’s Brood edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha “Sera” by Nicola Yoon from Because You Love to Hate Me edited by Amerie For more visit Stephanie’s blog here: https://readingblackfutures.com/black-girl-sffh/, https://readingblackfutures.com/black-boy-sffh/, https://readingblackfutures.com/black-sffh-anthologies/Raymond Williams, “Culture is Ordinary”Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.Music:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

In this episode Stephanie Toliver, Assistant Professor of Literacy and and Secondary Humanities at University of Colorado Boulder and lifelong sci-fi nerd chats with Henry and Colin about her experience writing her hybrid PhD dissertation. As part of her PhD, Stephanie got the opportunity to work with the DEEP Center’s Block to Block Program teaching middle-school age black girls how to write science fiction. Her now published <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Recovering-Black-Storytelling-in-Qualitative-Research-Endarkened-Storywork/Toliver/p/book/9780367747336" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dissertation</a> combines the stories written by those girls with theory and methodology to outline how Stephanie centers Black girls in her academic research. In this conversation they discuss how Stephanie’s leading style during the workshop was informed by the girls’ own interests and their storytelling instincts rather than the typical teacher-student model. As a group they engaged with afrofuturist stories from Black authors like Octavia Butler, Sherri L. Smith, Tracie Baptiste, and Nnedi Okorafor and used those stories to inform their own work. In detailing her own process, she explores with the hosts how academia should encourage storytelling, especially for scholars of color, rather than enforcing that they write in a more standard voice and tone. As a professor she encourages educators to use young adult literature to bridge the gap between learning and storytelling and more information about that can be found on her blog <a href="http://readingblackfutures.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">readingblackfutures.com</a>. A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Documentary on the DEEP Center’s Block by Block Program: <a href="https://youtu.be/2vjSk1_htms" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Block by Block's Guide to Resilience 21-22</a><a href="https://www.annenberglab.com/civic-media-fellowship/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">USC Annenberg’s Civic Media Fellowship</a>Henry’s <a href="https://www.civicimaginationproject.org/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Civic Imagination Project</a><a href="https://sunypress.edu/Books/O/On-Spiritual-Strivings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">On Spiritual Strivings</a>, Cynthia Dillard’s Book that inspired Toliver’s teaching methodsStephanie’s <a href="https://readingblackfutures.com/blog/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blog Post Defining Afrofuturism</a> Afrofuturism Defined Elsewhere: <a href="https://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/afrofuturism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Afrofuturism: From the Past to the Living Present | UCLA</a> <a href="https://www.essence.com/entertainment/a-beginners-guide-afrofuturism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Beginner's Guide To Afrofuturism: 7 Titles To Watch And Read</a> (Essence) <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/how-afrofuturism-can-help-the-world-mend/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How Afrofuturism Can Help the World Mend | WIRED</a> <a href="https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/afrofuturism-from-books-to-blockbusters-video/its-lit-season-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Afrofuturism: From Books to Blockbusters | It's Lit!</a> (PBS)Afrofuturist Texts Mentioned in the Episode:  <a href="https://www.sherrilsmith.com/orleans" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orleans</a> by Sherri L. Smith  <a href="https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Parable of the Sower</a> by Octavia Butler  <a href="https://traceybaptiste.com/the-jumbies-series" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Jumbies</a> by Tracie Baptiste  <a href="https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Octavia’s Brood</a> edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha  “Sera” by Nicola Yoon from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31450752-because-you-love-to-hate-me" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Because You Love to Hate Me</a> edited by Amerie For more visit Stephanie’s blog here: <a href="https://readingblackfutures.com/black-girl-sffh/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://readingblackfutures.com/black-girl-sffh/</a>, <a href="https://readingblackfutures.com/black-boy-sffh/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://readingblackfutures.com/black-boy-sffh/</a>, <a href="https://readingblackfutures.com/black-sffh-anthologies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://readingblackfutures.com/black-sffh-anthologies/</a>Raymond Williams, “<a href="http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/gustafson/FILM%20162.W10/readings/Williams.Ordinary.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Culture is Ordinary</a>”Share your thoughts via Twitter with <a href="https://twitter.com/henryjenkins" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Henry</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/cmac?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Colin</a> and the <a href="https://twitter.com/hdylisf_pod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How Do You Like It So Far?</a> account! You can also email us at <a href="mailto:howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com">howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com</a>.Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet   <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet</a> Spaceship by Lesion X  <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats</a> Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream:  <a href="https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental</a> Free Download / Stream:  <a href="https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceship" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceship</a> Music promoted by Audio Library  <a href="https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q</a> ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––