The contemporary western world (and beyond) has designed infrastructures of oppression, containment, and the erasure of Black and Indigenous life.

This Study will examine the relational infrastructures that overlay “the weather” (Christina Sharpe) — that is, the machinations that shape our lived spatial environments. How might we move through “geographies of unfreedom” towards liberatory futures? Can an abolitionist framework direct us in unmaking spaces of enclosure? Can we shape more expansive spaces capable of holding our full selves?

Text: Christina Sharpe’s Black Gathering: An Assembly in Three Parts (from Reconstructions: Architecture & Blackness in America) & Joseph M. Peirce’s A Manifesto for Speculative Relations (from Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World)

Date: Wednesday, June 24th at 7pm

Location: Bed-Stuy with Lindsee & Cherilyn

If you are interested in attending this Study, email strotherschool@sustainedattention.net