Nicholson, S., & Fletcher, T. (2022, August), In Search for Pleasurable Experiences for Black Girls and Women in Engineering and Computing  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41766

\bibitem{asee_peer_41766}
  Nicholson, S., \& Fletcher, T. (2022, August), \emph{In Search for Pleasurable Experiences for Black Girls and Women in Engineering and Computing}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--41766

Simone Nicholson and Trina Fletcher.  "In Search for Pleasurable Experiences for Black Girls and Women in Engineering and Computing".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/41766 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_41766}
  Simone Nicholson and Trina Fletcher.
  "In Search for Pleasurable Experiences for Black Girls and Women in Engineering and Computing".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/41766 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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AB  - Black women are the most educated group for bachelor’s degree attainment compared to male counterparts across all ethnic groups. However, gaps exist within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degree attainment. Black women made up 7.2% of the college-age population but only 2.92% of STEM degree holders and less than 1% of engineering degree holders as of 2017. Additionally, not only has the percentage and overall representation of Black women in engineering stayed stagnant or declined, but research is also showing that Black women in industry who have completed their degrees are leaving the fields all together. Per Audre Lorde, “Such system reduces work to a travesty of necessities, a duty by which we earn bread or oblivion for ourselves and those we love. But this is tantamount to blinding a painter and then telling her to improve her work, and to enjoy the act of painting. It is not only next to. impossible, it is profoundly cruel.” One can infer that this exodus is happening because Black women are taking heed to Lorde’s call for Black women to find pleasure in the work that they do. In this literature-based argument, I explore how these unpleasing experiences are spun from anti-Black girl and woman in the U.S and anti-Black girl and woman in engineering and computing histories. I present the thought-provoking question: In what ways Black girls and women can revision engineering and computing by centering Black Feminist Critical Thought in how one teaches, learns, and practices engineering and computing? Results from this study will advance the literature by providing researchers with a novel and innovative way of approaching and addressing an on-going challenge within the world of engineering and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) for Black women. 
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