Black Girlhood Unfolded: Reclaiming Puberty Narratives in a Digital Archive

With the “Hear, Here” series, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute for the Humanities will discuss a part of their current project in a short talk followed by a Q & A session.

About this talk:
This talk explores Black Girlhood Unfolded, a digital narrative platform that centers the lived experiences of Black girls navigating puberty. By elevating personal stories and community voices, the platform challenges adultification bias and dominant media silences, creating space for identity formation, healing, and resistance. In capturing voices too often left out of cultural memory, this work reframes Black girlhood as central—not marginal—to our understanding of youth, development, and representation.

Rona Carter is a 2025-26 Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Associate Professor of Psychology.