I have come to understand space as the product of our stories.

I understand a particular story of time, space, and the human as sustaining the current world system and accordingly, am deeply invested in the potential of storytelling as a liberatory practice given its capacity to bring into being something else.

I find this important in light of the pressing need to find other ways to structure space and relations that are not based in extraction, ruin, or domination [1]. And to find ways of doing so, I find that we might draw upon those stories of land and life that have been made invisible but that persist if we are discerning enough to see (and act upon) them. In other words, I see Afro-diasporic and indigenous collective memory as a blueprint or perhaps a map, that provides a more life-sustaining orientation than the one of the current world system shaped by colonial priorities and logic.

Many of my interests and activities lie in the realm of agroliberation as well as educational spaces that foreground story, critical thought, memory, & imagination: from arts and cultural centers to photolibraries and archives.

My process of writing is a piece of this—it’s how I remember. But enacting a different spatial imaginary usually takes place outside, with the land. And with others, invested in bringing into being a different story.

[1] McKittrick, Katherine. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle