Research

Current Research

Giovanni is currently researching the experiences of Black women in the US South working to combat the HIV epidemic. Along with the HER Initiative of Atlanta, she is completing a research project entitled Mama Said focusing on Mother Daughter Sexuality Education Communication in the African American Community.

In partnership with BWHI- the Black Women's Health Imperative, she is currently lead author of LUNA:Unleashed, a comic book dedicated to educating Black women and girls on strategies of HIV prevention and reproductive justice.

Book Launch @ Amalgam Comics

The Body- The HIV/AIDS Resource Interview

US Conference on HIV and AIDS (USCHA) Presentation
Using Comics as a Medium to Educate Black Women on HIV/AIDS

USCHA LUNA Presentation by The Womanist/Feminist Pedag...

Previous Research

National Women's Studies Association
Columbus, OH 2013
Author Talk Back (Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy):
Single Mothers, Broke Queers, & Communal Ownership: The Profane Existence of Academic Non Normatives

Community Property: African American Mother's Communal Ownership of their Daughter's Degrees by The Womanist/Feminist Pedagogy Group on Scribd

The above presentation is derived from the book chapter entitled, "Community Property, Black Mother's Communal Ownership of their Daughter's Degrees" by Giovanni Dortch and Candice Bledose. Published in Laboring Positions Black Women, Laboring and the Academy
edited by Sekile Nzinga Johnson. Demeter Press 2013

RWJF Health Policy Institute Meharry Medical College Nashville, TN 2017

Group Presentation : Health Disparities in Dallas, Texas

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Institute at Meharry Medical College by The Womanist/Feminist Pedagogy Group on Scribd

Texas National Association of Multicultural Education Mesquite, TX 2011

Poster Session Presentation:
Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Education through
African American Women’s Children's Literature

Southwestern Social Science Association
Las Vegas, NV 2011

Session Chair :
Feminism and Race

Race, Class, Gender and Social Inequality
Paper:
For Colored Girls: A Womanist Analysis

Paper:
African Identity Formation A Review of the Literature

TEXAS National Association of Multicultural Educators 2011 Handout by The Womanist/Feminist Pedagogy Group on Scribd

UNT 11th Annual Equity and Diversity Conference Denton, TX 2011
Workshop Facilitator:
Feminist/Womanist Pedagogy Teaching for Social Justice

Phi Sigma Tau Student Symposium Denton, TX 2011
Paper:
Race Nationality and Identity: A theoretical exploration of the case against race

Southwestern Social Science Association Houston, TX 2010
Paper:
Identity Formation and African Immigrants: A Preliminary Case Study

Texas National Association of Multicultural Education Denton, TX 2010
Paper:
Feminist Pedagogy: Theory to Practice

Association of Black Sociologists New Orleans, LA 2009
Paper:
Africans and African Americans

Southwestern Social Science Association Denver, CO 2009
Paper:
Immigrant Job Competition; What Black Folks Really Think.