Amplifying 300+ years of resistance in the archives, preserving records of today's acts of resistance
Three years ago, I participated in a project led by Anaïs Duplan of the Center for Afrofuturist Studies and Katie Parry of The Fabric Workshop and Museum. The project was called Endgame: Black Artists for an Urgent Black Future…
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TW: Some graphic imagery of violence on 52nd street from approx. 1970.
The past couple of months I’ve had a series of engagements where I felt less like a researcher and more like someone who the archives are talking to. …
This past Women’s History Month started out with me reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. I have been thinking through fugitive and escape narratives, as they relate to the historical trajectory of Abolition …
Last summer I was blessed enough to be among the first cohorts for Now Memories: Spiritual Anthology of Black Herbal Wisdom, hosted by Nana Catherine’s Apothecary. Each week we would gather, a gaggle of passionate Black femmes, budding spiritual herbalists, …
Jan 16, 1856: They Fugitives being strongly armed and determined on to gaining their liberty or death, resolutely drew their Pistols (double barrelled) and said they would not be taken_ said that no gentleman would attack persons travelling As they …
Abolition found me when I was looking for answers. I sought a vision of freedom with historical context, that wrapped thought and action together, and Abolition did that seamlessly. I watched videos of police captured on cameras and phones ruthlessly …