Counter-Spatial Imaginaries: Black Feminist Urban Arts Placemaking as Queer Worldmaking Practice”

• In Event: "The Ecologies of Black Queer Worldmaking."

Description for Program

This presentation examines queer worldmaking through a hip-hop organizing project in Seattle, WA where Black queer women and other women of color feminist organizers, cultural workers, and their co-conspirators engaged creative placemaking to sustain Black life in a gentrified community. The project centered on the performance and sonic practice of Black queer feminist artivists whose visions for freedom were expressed as queer desire, creating the conditions for promoting diverse expressions of communal love and challenging neoliberal processes that disproportionately impact queer and gender non-conforming people of color.

Author

• Mako Ward, Arizona State University