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Self-Study Guide Weaving Networks for Systemic Change
Explores network weaving strategies to foster systemic change by building collaborative relationships, enhancing collective learning, embodying wellbeing, and providing curated resources and tools for impactful social innovation.
mcusercontent.comAs its title suggests, Unnamed Figures not only illuminates Black appearances in the visual culture of this period but also asks how our encounters with them are shaped by the erasure of Blackness from art and archives.
Zoë Hopkins • The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art
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The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House (Penguin Modern)
Audre Lorde • 1 highlight
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f humans are to make new ways forward in partnership with nature and technology, we must first take a close look at and upend the concepts, histories, institutions and systems that support the inequitable distribution of resources and power.
Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism
I think it’s also important to admit, to attest to, and to [bear] witness to the violence of the archive of slavery, which is about erasure. There are tick marks instead of names; it’s all about the slave’s relationship to the accumulation of wealth for another. The archive doesn’t tell us the story of someone’s life.
Bettina Judd • On
ON LIBRARIESI was visiting public libraries and ultimately writing my dissertation about them and realizing it’s not about people engaging with kind of romanticized documents. There is some of that in the library, but it’s also compromised bodies interacting with compromised bodies, often the most marginalized people in societies and also really be... See more
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
DC is being gentrified like major cities everywhere. It raises the question: To whom does this place belong? That is a local question, but it is also an existential one. We are literally still fighting over whether Black people belong to their home places and whether their home places belong to them. Once, the formerly enslaved migrated to DC with
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