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✦ The Sojourner Project
A Black Studies Mobile Academy initiated by the Practicing Refusal Collective
CATASTROPHE :: CARTOGRAPHY
Facilitated by Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe, Torkwase Dyson, Canisia Lubrin, Kevin Adonis Browne, Danai Mupotsa and Dele Adeyemo.
- Public Session (Zoom)
- April 30th, 2021
- 12pm(EDT) 6pm(SAST)
These words mean and remember their origins in each other, each produced by the other, each is equal to the other. In the Black Atlantic, in the Black Pacific, in the Black Mediterranean, cartography is catastrophe, catastrophe is cartography. Each contributor as academics, as poets, as artists will dwell on the movement—symbolized by the double colon-between these concepts.
Materials
DIONNE BRAND: Maps
CHRISTINA SHARPE: Proximity
- ‘We’re not a dump’ – poor Alabama towns struggle under the stench of toxic landfills [multimedia]
- Aerial View of Stone’s Throw Landfill, Tallassee Alabama, from Google Earth. [image]
- Aerial view of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Alamy Stock Photo [image]
- Torkwase Dyson, Strange Fruit (He/She), 2015 [image]
- Christina Sharpe Proximity [text]
TORKWASE DYSON: Modulation
CANISIA LUBRIN: from Earthway: A Poetry of Crossings
KEVIN ADONIS BROWNE: Imaging and the Issue of Ruin
DANAI MUPOTSA: breathing grief
DELE ADEYEMO: Masquerading Cartography - Practices of Worlding Out of the Ruins of racial Capitalism in the Gulf of Guinea
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