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The aim is to explore how women of color use collective and embodied strategies to address institutional harm and foster academic belonging.

Mapping Our Collective Resistance: Embodied Strategies for Holding Ground and Strengthening Equity in Academia

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The aim is to explore how women of color use collective and embodied strategies to address institutional harm and foster academic belonging.
Conducted participatory, arts-based workshops with 42 participants across various racial identities.
Utilized body mapping, counter-storytelling, and critical dialogue for data collection.
Analyzed emergent themes relating to experiences of oppression and resilience.
Identified four emergent themes: embodied exhaustion, boundary-setting as survival, collective grounding, and joy as resistance.
Highlighted the necessity of institutional investment in affinity networks and culturally grounded support systems.
Proposed a 'two-track praxis model' for promoting equity in academic settings.

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Qualitative inquiry examines embodied strategies that women of color use to confront institutional harm and advocate for equity.

Ballout et al. (2026) studied this question.

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