As we closed our How She Knew: Fugitive Epistemologies Intensive last week we meditated on the queer distance between here and free. Is it time? Is it space? What other forms of materiality and relation grace the distance? Using writing as a reflective surface, sound as a place to go and poetry as a skeleton architecture (ask Audre Lorde about that) we looked across. Using actual mirrors we looked in, we relearned the frame, we time-traveled and teleported to earlier and future possible truths. Between here and free? It seems like a distance charted through triangulation (but that happened already), maybe more like a circle. Probably technically a sphere. Ask Zora. It’s somewhere (here.)
We offer our closing poem as a map and journey-song for our fellow fugitives. And of course if you want to see if all there is between here and free is layers and layers of attenuated meaning (ask Spillers about that) and dirt (ask Alice) join us this week for Dig: Womanist Archeologies. Today is the last day to sign up. <3
See you on the other side.
Love,
Sista Docta Lex
See You on the Other Side: Journey Poems for Fugitive Intellectuals
by the participants in the How She Knew: Fugitive Epistemologies Webinar
the voice that never died
see you on the other side
deep seating knowing, never forgotten
see you on the other side
being here for you and me and all at the same time
see you on the other side
heart’s wanderings
see you on the other side
togetherness
see you on the other side
new limits
see you on the other side
more questions
see you on the other side
the story of Ferdinand
see you on the other side
all bills autopayed from an account that never overdrafts
see you on the other side
joy in the morning
see you on the other side
my bald and brilliant brain
see you on the other side
smiling brightly
see you on the other side
exercises of freedom
see you on the other side
sunshine on my belly
see you on the other side
baby foreheads
see you on the other side
new flesh
see you on the other side
freedom’s free child
see you on the other side
Alaina’s dreams
see you on the other side
creative presence of praxis
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Ouida’s farm
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graduation day
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great grandma’s story
see you on the other side
generationing
see you on the other side
all my people and the people they bring
see you on the other side
beautifully aging
see you on the other side
love and life from the eyes of an 11 year old
see you on the other side
sweetness everlasting
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the free and naked future
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the food that feeds us fully
see you on the other side
us whole
see you on the other side
the gathered grateful generations
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everyone who ever lived helping to free us
see you on the other side