Black girls regularly experience gendered, racial structural violence, not just from formal systems of law enforcement, but throughout their daily lives. School is one of the most central and potentially damaging sites for Black girls in this regard. In this paper, I draw attention to the role of the beauty salon as a space of renewal for Black women and girls as they navigate systems of oppression in their daily lives and report on the ways in which a specific beauty salon in Chesterfield County, Virginia, supported a group of Black high school girls. The study focuses on the exposure of Black girls to carceral measures in school settings and speaks to the role of African-American beauty salons as spaces where collective care from violence can manifest and strategies to interrupt racialized gendered violence against Black girls can emerge. As Co-Investigator of this study funded by the Department of Justice, I created the “scholar-artist-activist lab,” consisting of a small group of undergraduate and graduate students facilitating workshops with a mixed gender group of Black high-school students, to discuss, interact, and participate in social justice-centered exercises. I focus here on the experiences of the Black girls who participated in the study.

黑人女孩经常经历性别、种族结构性暴力，不仅来自正式的执法系统，而且贯穿她们的日常生活。在这方面，学校是黑人女孩最核心和潜在破坏性的场所之一。在本文中，我提请注意美容院作为黑人妇女和女孩在日常生活中应对压迫系统时的更新空间的作用，并报告弗吉尼亚州切斯特菲尔德县一家特定美容院的方式，支持一群黑人高中女生。该研究的重点是黑人女孩在学校环境中受到监禁措施的影响，并谈到了非裔美国人美容院作为可以体现暴力集体关怀和可以出现中断针对黑人女孩的种族化性别暴力的策略的空间的作用。作为这项由司法部资助的研究的共同调查员，我创建了“学者-艺术家-活动家实验室”，由一小群本科生和研究生组成，与黑人高中生的混合性别群体一起举办研讨会，讨论、互动和参与以社会正义为中心的活动。我在这里重点介绍参与研究的黑人女孩的经历。