This is your map to know where things are...
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[our tenets]
1. I commit to dreams made by Blk ppl taking priority and precedent in this space.
2. Matter cannot be created, nor destroyed. And that applies to abolition.
3. “‘Twoness’ is inherently contemporary, even futuristic. DuBois asks how it feels to be a problem. Ol’ Dirty Bastard says ‘If I got a problem, a problem’s got a problem ‘til it’s gone.’”
4. I commit to reimagining and experiencing the Future, Presently.
5. In this moment, I commit to loving Blk bodies, spaces, peoples, and minds – honestly and without conditions or incentives.
6. In this moment, I commit to centralizing the Blk experience, even if – especially if – that means decentering myself.
[a blk lib for the ancestors]
This is not NAME OF DEITY,
or a dream, and you are not going crazy.
I forgot to set my alarm this morning.
When I woke up, I saw it was
BEFORE/AFTER the end of the world.
I have many questions.
I am your great-great-great grand
DAUGHTER/SON/CHILD/BABY.
I am talking to you from
PLACE WHERE YOU TALK TO ANCESTORS.
I come to you with my
PLACE WHERE YOU HOLD TENSION
dropped and a splash of TYPE OF ALCOHOL.
I was also able to bring the horizon,
a photo of NAME OF RELATIVE
and exactly NUMBER UNIT OF MEASUREMENT
of sun, water, and TYPE OF INCENSE.
I lay these humbly at your feet.
Grandmother, my first question is…
QUESTION FOR THE ANCESTORS.
Thunder roll and thunder clap, lightning strike.
READ Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade
WATCH The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto on KCET
LISTEN “Ruth Wilson GIlmore Makes the Case for Abolition” on The Intercept Podcast
REFLECT What does real life mean to you? What are you going to do about it?
and how do we end? we end.
knowing that you can always return to this page as you need/want to. the meditation + chakra activities will always be here.
to close out our collective ritual, there is one final task. complete it whenever, wherever...
knowing that you can always return to this page as you need/want to. the meditation + chakra activities will always be here.
to close out our collective ritual, there is one final task. complete it whenever, wherever...
[a task]
you may have received
a “This is Real Life” sticker
place that sticker somewhere public, somewhere you think people
could use the reminder,
and place it there on a day
where you feel
particularly aware of reality
eventually there will be a
network of stickers
reminding us of reality, scattered throughout space and time
and this is our collective
map
you may have received
a “This is Real Life” sticker
place that sticker somewhere public, somewhere you think people
could use the reminder,
and place it there on a day
where you feel
particularly aware of reality
eventually there will be a
network of stickers
reminding us of reality, scattered throughout space and time
and this is our collective
map
[credits]
meditation script by Ta-Nia,
meditation performed + underscored by Nazareth Hassan,
meditation video created by Ava Elizabeth Novak,
closing ritual activities + site design by Ta-Nia
head to Ta-Nia’s main site here to explore more