Creative Civic Literacies: Exploring Asian Girls' Compositions in a Virtual Diasporic Third Space

ABSTRACT Drawing on sociocultural literacy, Asian American feminist and third space lenses, this paper explores how nine US‐based Asian diasporic girls composed for civic learning in a virtual Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) program. It examines how, in this Asian girl and woman‐centric diasporic third space, girls mobilized creative civic literacies. These were composing practices and texts that emerged from their everyday knowledge‐building as diversely located Asian diasporic girls, and through which they inventively rewrote unjust democratic terrains. Tracing two findings related to girls' creative composing, the paper advances understandings of Asian diasporic girls' creative civic literacies as well as how these can be uplifted via creative diasporic third space pedagogies.