Work Cited
Black Feminist Listening Practice
Find Doorways: Reference to Leanne Simpson constellation doorway theory in As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
Of the Possible: reference to Saidiya Hartman’s “Choreography of the possible”, in Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Foreclose others’ [futures and worlds]: Reference to Eve Tuck and K Wayne Yang’s Decolonization is Not a Metaphor and their statement that “The settler colonial imagination in which the Native hands over his claim to land, his very Indian-ness to the settler keeping. This fantasy is invested in a settler futurity and dependent on the foreclosure of an Indian futurity” (14)
Loving witness: reference to “loving witness” as theorized by Almah LaVon Rice in their article “Watchers Within, Watchers Without: My Black OCD Story
How none of us will be free until we all are (loved): Quotation from earlier essay written by Taylor Wilson Thompson Bending Borders, Looking Elsewhere
The future is your next breath: Quotation pulled from Alexis Pauline Gumbs article The Transformative Dark Thing
I had to try the alchemy and then lend the words: Quotation from Alysia Harris’ No Poems Inside the Victorian House
A pluriverse, a world where many worlds are possible: theory and quotation from Arturo Escobar’s Plurivers Politics: The real and the possible
How we get free: Reference to Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
No direct translation: reference to translation theory interrogated in Marisol de la Cadena’s Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds
A world where many worlds can exist: theory and quotation from Arturo Escobar’s Plurivers Politics: The real and the possible
Refusing capture, reaching for relation: Reference to quotation of Ashon Crawley in Stayed, Freedom, Hallelujah
Hear what we cannot yet see: Reference to Alexis Pauline Gumbs quotation from Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
The only grace you can have is the grace you can imagine: Quotation from Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
It can pass on: Reference from Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
“(3) Alysia Harris – ‘No Poems Inside the Victorian House’ – YouTube.” Accessed April 25, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsXxbkHpro&t=41s.
Cadena, Marisol de la. Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds. The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures 2011. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Crawley, Ashon. “Stayed, Freedom, Hallelujah.” In Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness. BLACK OUTDOORS: INNOVATIONS IN THE POETICS OF STUDY. Duke University Press, 2020.
Escobar, Arturo. “Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible.” E-Duke Books Anthropology Collection 2020, Latin America in translation, 2020.
Gumbs, Alexis. “That Transformative Dark Thing.” The New Inquiry (blog), May 19, 2015. https://thenewinquiry.com/that-transformative-dark-thing/.
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, and Adrienne M. Brown. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. Emergent Strategy Series. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2020.
———. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. Emergent Strategy Series. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2020.
Hartman, Saidiya. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. 1st ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Jordan, June. “Where Is the Love.” Speech presented at the 4th Annual Conference of Afro-American Writers, Panel:“Black Women Writers and Feminism.,” Howard University, 1978. https://blackfeministmind.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/where-is-the-love.pdf.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Knopf, 1994.
Rice, Almah LaVon. “Watcher Within, Watchers Without: My Black OCD Story.” GUTS, December 3, 2018. http://gutsmagazine.ca/watcher-within-watchers-without-my-black-ocd-story/.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. Indigenous Americas, 2017.
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, and EBSCOhost, eds. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2017.
Tuck, Eve, and K Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor,” n.d., 40.
Mixtape Oracle
How we get free: Reference to Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free: Black FEminism and the Combahee River Collective
After the future, where all black life lives anyway: Reference and quotation of Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures
Naive, optimistic/rigor and craft: Reference to Alyssia Harris, No Poems Inside the Victorian House
Purported light that the enlightenment provides: Reference to Fred Moten theorization in conversation with Saidiyah Hartman at Black Outdoors Conference as well as theorization of J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak. “Plainly rephrased into a question, we ask: what’s at stake in being in the dark together?”
Good ground and will bear what it must: Reference to Parable of the Sower
We were never meant to survive: Quotation from Litany of Survival, Audre Lorde
“(3) Alysia Harris – ‘No Poems Inside the Victorian House’ – YouTube.” Accessed April 25, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsXxbkHpro&t=41s.
Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Updated edition. Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, 2012.
Keeling, Kara. Queer Times, Black Futures. New York University Press, 2019. https://www-degruyter-com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/view/title/577764.
Lorde, Audure. A Litany for Survival, 1978.
Mathew 13: 18-23, KJV. “Parable of the Sower: Matthew 13 – New International Version.” Bible Gateway. Accessed May 12, 2021. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2013&version=NIV.
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, and EBSCOhost, eds. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2017.
Franklin Humanities Institute. “The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures After Property and Possession.” Text. Franklin Humanities Institute, November 17, 2017. World. https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/the-black-outdoors-humanities-futures-after-property-and-possession/.
