Black Girl Freedom Songs- MLA 2027

deadline for submissions: 
March 20, 2026
full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Bria Harper- MLA Special Session
contact email: 

This sessions welcomes 300-word abstracts that actively engage the ways that Black-girl centered literature (novel, poetry, media, etc.) reimagines modes of resistance, resilience, and world-making through historical and modern definitions of freedom and emancipation.