Abstract
Editor's ForumProtest and/as Care Michelle D. Commander This forum cluster—in dialogue with the Editors' Forum on "Art, Process, Protest"—consists of a series of short essays on Black poetics, Black language, protest photography, and artistic practice to reflect on protest and/as care in slavery's afterlife. Christina Sharpe's In the Wake: On Blackness and Being links each meditation; here, the authors engage with an extended set of inquiries that Sharpe catalogs at the outset of In the Wake regarding Black strivings toward living otherwise: "I want to think through what this imagining calls forth, to think through what it calls on 'us' to do, think, feel in the wake of slavery. … How can we think (and rethink and rethink) care laterally, in the register of the intramural, in a different relation than that of the violence of the state?"1 The reflections that follow contemplate alongside Sharpe's stunning text, interrogating and gesturing toward additional ways of asserting and tending to Black being despite the immi/a/nence of death in the wake of slavery.2 Notes 1. Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 20. 2. Ibid., 132. Copyright © 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press
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