Maroon Studies: A Brilliance Remastered Summer School Series
Intensive #1: Debt and Black Unbelievability: June 15-17, 2015 (12pm to 2pm Eastern Time)
This is a webinar intensive for bad credit/bad debt intellectuals committed to unbelievable futures. Engaging ideas of debt, credit and the incredible this webinar draws on texts by Evie Shockley, Fred Moten, Jamaica Kincaid, Sylvia Wynter, Gayatri Spivak and of course our real life experiences of pulling our realities out of thin air. This is especially necessary for broke and brilliant creatives committed to black life.
This webinar has already happened. Check out some of the poems we created here:
Some Poems About Our Blackness:
http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/2015/06/16/some-poems-about-our-blackness-from-maroon-studies-intensive-1/
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Intensive #2: Necessary as Water: July 15-17, 2015 (12pm to 2pm Eastern)
This is a webinar intensive for thirsty visionaries who value transnational/intercommunal connections and a planetary scale of transformation. Transubstantiating the poetry of Audre Lorde, the theoretical work of Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Mohanty, Michelle Wright and Katherine McKittrick and the activist legacies of June Jordan and Lydia Gumbs, this webinar is especially necessary for thinkers connecting basic needs to brave visions.
8 spots are available. $150-225 sliding scale (payment plans available).
You can reserve your spot by offering a $50 non-refundable deposit here (please include the name of the webinar in the notes):
Intensive #3: Blood, Water and Land August 10-12, 2015 (12pm to 2pm Eastern)
This webinar is for ride or die radicals who live to love the people. Drawing on the legacy of Sisters in Support of Sisters in South Africa, the solidarity journalism of Alexis DeVeaux, the blood ecologies of Jewelle Gomez and Audre Lorde and the salience of spit, saltwater and sangre, we will explore connections, contradictions and discursive possibilities across imperial divisions towards tangible outcomes.
8 spots are available. $150-225 sliding scale (payment plans available).
You can reserve your spot by offering a $50 non-refundable deposit here (please include the name of the webinar in the notes):