Black Utopias🌍
If you’re a non-fiction babe who is looking for something introspective, fun & slightly mystical, this one is for you 🤭
🪐 The forces which are Sosa’s House of Horror & The Amammerɛ Collective are coming together to host a guided discussion on Black Utopias, by Jayna Brown.
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In Black Utopias, Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and the work of speculative fiction writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler as they decenter and destabilize the human, radically refusing liberal humanist ideas of subjectivity and species.
Black people—untethered from the hope of rights, recognition, or redress—celebrate themselves as elements in a cosmic effluvium.
🌟Reading for this session:
Chapter 1 - Along the Psychic Highway: Black Women Mystics and Utopias of the Ecstatic
Chapter 3 - Our Place is Among the Stars: Octavia E Butler and the Preservation of Species
Chapter 5 - In the Realm of the Senses: Heterotopias of Subjectivity, Desire and Discourse
We have picked 3 chapters from the book to read (to make for a more focused & intricate discussion!) and will have time to discuss our thoughts, theories & will have the chance to draw up our own mini manifestos. Come with your best critiques, and ready to deep dive into the alternate universes 🌟🌌
🌟ticket includes:
free PDF of the book (will be emailed out to you once registered!)
light refreshments & beverages
discussion access & facilitation costs
❤️🔥 tickets are non refundable - but can be transferred where possible.