The Intentional Layering of Love, Imagination, and Expression as a Pathway to Freedom: A Conversation with Drs. Detra Price and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

Abstract

This conversation was first imagined as an interview with Drs. Detra Price and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz about their groundbreaking book Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces. With a focus on fostering and learning from students' digital activism by purposefully weaving together pedagogies for racial justice and multimodal literacies, their book and their scholarship is the perfect fit for this special issue. However, much like their book that recently won the Divergent Publication Award, these two scholars and visionaries are not easily boxed in. Thus, while our conversation begins by exploring how arts and technologies can come together to promote healing, we also delve into the intentional layering of love, imagination, (un)learning, artistic expression, amplification, and trusting relationships as essential components for building the world we want to live in.