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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Emerging Dialogue: Being in Conversation with the Archive
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. …
Towards Synthesizing Black Radical Abolitionist Feminism and Black Abolitionist Pasts
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 …
Whispers from the Woods: Plantlife, Wildlife, Blacklife
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, …
Abolitionist Vigilance: Lessons of Security and Care
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, Infinity, and Beyond
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 …