This is part of Brilliance Remastered‘s series of intensives on Ancestral Listening leading up to the publication of Dub: Finding Ceremony, an ancestral listening text by Alexis Pauline Gumbs forthcoming from Duke University Press in February 2020.
Friday-Sunday, November 29, 30th and December 1 2-4pm daily (Eastern Time) Online Intensive
“go to the edge. when you get there dig your heels in. step back. kneel down. lean your lungs over the ledge and scream. stomach into the void and retch. hands holding rocks. throw them. empty out. breathe. stay there. your head as low down as possible. until all you can hear is the sound of your breathing. ragged and loud. this is how you know that the edge of the world is not the end. do you know it? when you know it, turn around.”
-from Dub: Finding Ceremony
As the days get dark and the holidays approach, those of us who have lost loved ones often feel grief reminding us, teaching us, sending us deep within. As we confront the nationalist, colonial holiday “Thanksgiving” many of us are mourning genocide against indigenous people on this land, and grounding even more strongly in our connections to our own indigenous ancestors. As we gather with given and chosen family, many of us need a nurturing space through which to retain our new insights while we confront old patterns. For some of us what we have been through this year is piling up on us as we face a new decade. This intensive is for me and for you, a place to focus and strengthen our ancestral listening.
This 3-day online intensive is a space for reflective writing, listening and discernment for people who are seeking to prioritize ancestral listening and find the insights their grief is offering. Participants will have access to advance excerpts from Dub: Finding Ceremony, but no reading is required in advance. Participants will need to be available from 2-4 eastern on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (Nov 29, Nov 30 and Dec 1) something to write with, a mirror and an open heart.
The course will be limited to 12 participants.
Tuition is sliding scale $200-350. Sign up with a non-refundable* deposit of $75 here:
(put the note “Grief and Memory” in paypal)
*If the course is full when you sign up, your deposit will be refunded. If you don’t attend the course, your deposit will be a cherished donation to the ongoing work of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind.