Further Conversations

Rather than a list of references, we offer a syllabus to learn/engage with, with the narrative of why and whens and whos and how. This is not an authority, but pointing towards pathways and an honest attempt at an account of how we know. It's not complete and only a start (very in progress).

Also does this tickle your angry/defensive/fearful bone (first of all, why) and second, please feel free to make a complaint!

Syllabus (of sorts)

For an academic journey:

We start with an undercurrent of a lot of what we are feeling, with Fred Moten and Stefano Harvey, The Undercommons

Katherine McKittrick, Dear Science, especially the footnotes
(an accompaniment from Space & Society)

Sandy Grande, Refusing the University

We do not endorse NYT, but this conversation has stuck and influenced our ideas of what should continue and what should be the same: Kiese Laymon on Revision

Chloe Bass's Wayfinding

Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals

some King B-Sides, Some Black Feminist notes on Native Feminisms and the flesh; Feral Feminisms Interview; Other Intimacies: Black Studies Notes on Native/Indigenous Studies; Staying Ready for Black Study

Intellectuals Outside the Academy: Conversations with Leanne Simpson, Steven Salaita, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Listen to their vibes.

For our (physical) formation:

A good website example and also a manifesto: https://www.manifestno.com/

Cheryl Harris, Reflections on Whiteness as Property

Lauren Berland & Kathleen Stewart, The Hundreds

Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Call back to Katherine McKittrick's Dear Science

Angie Morrill, Eve Tuck and the Super Futures Haunt Qollective, Before Dispossession, or Surviving It

Sunsets, everywhere

For the academic citation conversation:

We start with a eulogy.