we’re putting together a virtual (as always!) discussion series for this Sag Szn (Nov 22 - Dec 21) on Black Fugitivity

we will be working with the idea that to be Black and within the confines of the imperial core is to be fugitive

considering fugitivity as:

a modality of radical reclaiming of selfhood within empire

a rejection, as commitment to non-participation, whether by disruption or evasion

a politic, a guide, an ancestral creative pathway to surviving change and collapse

unemployment as a state of fugitivity,

statelessness and migration as fugitivity

homelessness as a state of fugitivity.

covid-cautiousness as fugitivity

fugitivity as the opposite of captivity

to escape abuse and artificiality

i’m still in the process of throwing it together, but the plan is that we’ll have a weekly workshop series grounding the series, as well as a couple of panels, an interview or two, and some mbongis (collective storysharing) for Black folks

and we shall raise funds for our Black & fugitive kin who will be sharing their wisdom, strategies, and insight into their ways of moving through the world!!

****🙌🏾Let us know if you want to be involved! 🙌🏾

A few resources we can suggest to get acquainted with the concepts:

Anarkata: A Statement

The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study

The Dugout: A Black Anarchist Podcast

Assata: An Autobiography

Fugitive Movements: Commemorating the Denmark Vesey Affair and Black Radical Antislavery in the Atlantic World