Apocalyptic (Im)Possibilities: Afro-Futurism, Afro-Pessimism, Queer Time, and Settler Colonialism #decolonizingfutures #healingcurriculum

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Indigenous and Black studies have long argued that colonialism—in the form of dehumanization, genocide and forced removal, enacted through slavery, war, and territorializing—is the unacknowledged apocalypse that Indigenous and Black communities experienced, survived and continue to live with. The apocalypse structures the places and possibilities of public education, whether in education’s direct colonial legacies or in the neoliberal reproduction and mutation of educational structures. This interactive session of scholars, educators, artists, and scholar-educator-artists puts into conversation the weighty critiques of Afro-pessimism and theories of settler colonialism, with the radical imaginaries of Afrofuturism, Native futurities, queer theory and decolonization. Panelists engage realms of the speculative, the Otherworldly, and the dis/temporal to reimagine what is possible in education. #decolonizingfutures #healingcurriculum

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chairs

• Wanda Pillow, University of Utah

• Vonzell Agosto, University of South Florida

• K. Wayne Yang, University of California - San Diego

• Kirsten T. Edwards, University of Oklahoma

• Denise M. Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University

• M. Francyne Huckaby, Texas Christian University

Participants

• Michael J. Dumas, University of California - Berkeley

• Angie Morrill, Portland Public Schools

• Lisa Weems, Miami University

• Monique Antoinette Guishard, Bronx Community College - CUNY