New Blog Post + FREE online workshop + New sounds

Time in Justice x Housing Futures Workshop - May 10, 2020 @ 2pm

A free online workshop exploring the relationship between justice, linear time constructs, and notions of the future in marginalized Black communities. The presenter Rasheedah Phillips will provide examples from Black Quantum Futurism’s communal quantum time capsule archive and other projects exploring housing, temporality, gentrification, and Black histories and futurities, as well as from her own work providing legal representation to families facing housing instability, and working on housing policy issues with a racial justice and afrofuturist lens. Through an online group exercise, participants will apply afrofuturist visioning tools to imagining housing futures, considering the opportunities for disrupting temporal and spatial displacement for vulnerable people in their own communities.

 
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New Blogs: The Shift Audiostory and Black Timescapes, Time Travel + Temporal Displacement

 

Reflections on recent and upcoming films centering Black Womanist and Afrodiasporan Temporalities

 
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Audiostory and text of "The Shift" by Rasheedah Phillips from Recurrence Plot (and Other Time Travel Tales) with soundscapes by Moor Mother

 
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Moor Mother made a Post-Quarantine playlist for Spotify with non-linear vibes only.

 
DIY Time Travel
 

Clepsydra is soundscapes for writers and visual artists to create to. Coming to Moor Mother's Bandcamp on May 1, 2020. 

 
DIY Time Travel

Community Futures Lab Book Reviews

"The roots of [Irreversible Entangelment's] latest record, Who Sent You?, can be seen in an essay called “Time Pockets” that Ayewa wrote for Space-Time Collapse Vol II: Community Futurisms. The ideas in the journal, dedicated to Black Quantum Futurism and featuring insights from various artists and activists, directly correlate to many of the ideas explored on the album: community preservation in the face of disenfranchisement, gentrification, and systemic injustice."

- Bandcamp Daily

 

"In general, Community Futurisms is one of the best urban planning books I have ever read, for it is driven by community-based voices to share their knowledge (seemingly unfiltered, too), engaging both the practices of everyday residents and highlighting the quality work that neighborhood researchers can produce. I wish I had a class to teach, for I would teach this book alongside the typical “urban theory canon.”

- Industry Dump

 

Please note that we are still accepting orders and are shipping out books and merch on Fridays along with other essential errands. Unfortunately we had to raise our shipping rates for international packages due to increases in postal rates. Purchases may take an additional week or two to arrive due to worldwide shipping delays. We appreciate your love, understanding, and support!

 
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