A grammar of refusal and a language of freedom for the [digital] humanities

Image: Reconstruction to scale of the elevation and floor plan of Molly Horniblow's house, showing Jacob's hiding place (shaded area). By Carl Lousbury, Colonial Williamsurg Foundation. Jean Fagan Yellin, ed., The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (Durha…

Image: Reconstruction to scale of the elevation and floor plan of Molly Horniblow's house, showing Jacob's hiding place (shaded area). By Carl Lousbury, Colonial Williamsurg Foundation. Jean Fagan Yellin, ed., The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).

 

“a dark hole

an attic space

she plots, she plans…

her enclosure is an incubator for a practice of refusal and a roadmap to freedom.”

Tina Campt, “Loophole of Retreat,” e-flux (2019)

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Life x Code gathers “in the Taller, workshops, incubators, and on social media to create futures beyond the academy and within our communities.”

Image: Dr. Savannah Shange with Taller Electric Marronage Electricians Jada Similton, and Dr. Yomaira Figueroa recording the first Electric Marronage podcast (Spring 2019)

 
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Life x Code incubates community accountable, decolonial, antiracist projects and praxis

 

“Tracing worlds/otherwise means engaging in the future work of thinking, writing, and materializing works and actions that humanize peoples condemned by coloniality…”

— Yomaira Figueroa, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (2020)

Image Credit: Melissa Cardona, Vessels Performance (Workshop) | Header Image: Daniel Bieber, Starling Murmuration, 2018