This web is a space for holding, for creating safety and dialogue. An invitation to work within it, around it, because of it. Becoming and echoing, forms, structures, patterns and ways that Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer, trans, non-binary, two spirit, people of color form kinship, radical community, spaces of survival and dialogues rooted in resistance.
These-are-our-roles-tools-forms-of-connectivity (mural installation) becomes the banner, table cloth, holder of friends and community, a web, net, sacred space, curtain for an ecosystem of work that shares roots. Rituals Here is the stage, vessel and keeper of this work, a reminder that it takes tending to, returning again and again, repetition, the multiple, the print, the welcome back to be committed to the life long work of connectivity. I like to think of kinship as a ritual, attending organizing meetings as a ritual, tending to an altar as a ritual, reading aloud to friends as a ritual, learning from our movement elders as a ritual, painting a mural as a ritual. That rituals are not static acts but food and ingredients to our lives. Interwoven in this space, on and in patterns reaching for a hug, are five publications that question, examine, expand and add to the layered languages of survival and resistance.
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, 2023