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Social Justice Cultural Plunge Michelle Vo School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University SLK 603: Power, Privilege, and Oppression Cory Tolliver November 9, 2023

Girls For A Change hosted an annual event called the Black Girl Rally on October 6, 2023. The theme of this year’s Black Girl Rally was “Make My Joy: Unlocking Expressions of Creativity”. Girls For A Change previously recruited at local middle school and high schools to get the girls at these schools involved with and participate in the Black Girl Rally. The first portion of the Black Girl Rally was a Joy Market where the girls and people in the community could come out and see the local vendors that were invited out to table at the Black Girl Rally. After the Joy Market ended, the girls were able to get free dinner provided by the event and they listened to a panel of Black women who made their careers in creative endeavors and how they harnessed their creativity to build movements, leave lasting legacies, and cultivate joy. Afterwards they were invited to participate in various rotating activities that were hosted by local creative groups from the community. My role during the event was to provide support to vendors and activity leaders, assisting the girls as they rotated stations and participated in the activities, and helping pack up and organize all the event materials. My initial impressions of the Black Girl Rally were that there was a great turn out for the girls who participated in the event and with the amount of activity leaders. There was also a lot of community involvement with numerous volunteers from the community that assisted with the event. The Black Girl Rally impacted social justice because it shined a light on the way Black girls are negatively perceived and the rally is fighting to help these girls fight this injustice. This rally provided the girls opportunities and the space to learn about their options for the future. Girls For A Change’s vision statement is “preparing Black girls for the world and the world for Black girls.” This correlates with what Goodkind (2020) mentions with empowerment programs with Black girls to help address societal inequities. Black girls in the U.S. face high

levels of discrimination and adversity, so it is important to support empowerment-based programming to help reframe Black girls’ resistance to injustices (Goodkind, 2020). This event allowed me to be involved with the systems in place to help stop discriminations toward Black girls and truly understand the inequalities they face in their lives. I believe I applied the core competency of advancing human rights and social and economic justice by helping these Black girls feel empowered and not ashamed of their race (NASW, 2021).

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Works Cited Goodkind, S., Brinkman, B. G., & Elliott, K. (2020). Redefining Resilience and Reframing Resistance: Empowerment Programming with Black Girls to Address Societal Inequities. Behavioral Medicine (Washington, D.C.) , 46 (3–4), 317–329. https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2020.1748864 National Association of Social Workers. (2021). NASW code of ethics. Retrieved November 2, 2023, from https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-Ethics- English

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