Poetic inquiry enhances literacy instruction and fosters healing in male educators of color, suggesting joy can be a powerful act of resistance.
This article amplifies the authors’ personal narratives as men of color and veteran educators, illustrating how joy can serve as an act of resistance while demonstrating how teachers can use their stories to reflect, enhance literacy instruction, and cultivate spaces of bravery and healing through brotherhood, solidarity, and radical love.
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