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…
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 …
Indigenous People in Their Own Words Part II: Redrawing History
By Mariam Williams
I ended part I of this two-part blog series with the question, ““[I]n 25 to 100 years, what will hold more weight to people looking back at this moment—viral, instantaneous postings, the next-day regrets of experienced journalists, …