Abstract
This artistic response centers Black aesthetical alchemy as a source of radical healing and liberation. Recognizing the brutal strain of a white supremacist caste system, the author situates resilience as a r/evolutionary spiritual trait and innate cultural praxis. Black life and wholeness is explored through intimate acts of place-making, reclamation, and creation.
Highlights
I write this as a black-identifying 36 year old woman, living in the United States, born and branched in Portland, OR, to a family tree expressing Nigerian, Camaroonian, Scottish, Welsh, British, Norwegian, Senegalese, and Irish lineages
Black life and wholeness is explored through intimate acts of place-making, reclamation, and creation
Maybe the only force that can make the home place/space for us -and the lineages traveling with us through DNA and social entanglement- between the realities of not being able to go back “home”, and the re-cognition that we are not entitled to claim as “ours” the unceded tribal lands which comprise every square inch of these United States
Summary
I write this as a black-identifying 36 year old woman, living in the United States, born and branched in Portland, OR, to a family tree expressing Nigerian, Camaroonian, Scottish, Welsh, British, Norwegian, Senegalese, and Irish lineages (among others I’m sure).
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