The fourth conversation, pre-recorded in 2021, moves the conversations beyond words and concepts to focus on the power of the visual arts and storytelling to portray the lives of children and families from a variety of perspectives and points of view. The speakers reflect on the themes of the Reconstructing Children’s Rights Institute as articulated visually in the Institute’s artwork - works whose titles are Possession, Exploitation, Discrimination, Domination, Resistance, and Rebellion. The conversation highlights how the language and imagery often used to describe children, youth, and families perpetuate and reproduce the colonial, racist, and patriarchal underpinnings of the field. The speakers discuss how they and other artists are pushing back and retelling stories and using art and arts programming to protect and empower communities and, more broadly, to reconstruct and to reframe children’s rights. Click through below to view the briefing paper which includes more information regarding the session topic and speakers and a targeted list of resources, to listen to the Conversation #4 five-minute trailer, and to listen to the full hour-long conversation.
