OPENING (FREE) WRITING EXERCISE Welcome to Artifact Lab 8 of 8. Please begin with this exercise on your own and we’ll begin together at 2:08PM PST. Write freely if this is too constraining. Lists concrete sensory details, sensory knowledge that has to do with justice and liberation. What do you sense or imagine justice and liberation to look, sound, feel, taste, smell like? Or simply finish this prompt: Justice is/Liberation is…
WELCOME TO ARTIFACT LAB 8 OF 8! WORKSHOP PRINCIPLES Care for self, care for others, care for body, care for land, careful work toward genuine & practical freedoms & decolonizations. Set intentions upfront — for whom & for what are you showing up? Think, read, listen, & create with a humble, generous, & “radical intellectual openness” (Critical Ethnic Studies Collective), which is to say, CREATE DANGEROUSLY (Edwidge Danticat via Camus) & CREATE CONTINGENTLY, be open to experimentation, play, and failure, rather, be open to learning through writing.
LEARNING OUTCOME To compose an artifact toward freedom. THE PROCESS FREE WRITE sensing justice and liberation INTRODUCTION what inspires this laboratory METHODOLOGY gather all language: collage as reading world GUIDING TEXT Assata & Leonora MOOD TEXTS Lorde & Aguilar FORM 2 alternating refrains (8-10 lines of free verse) WRITING TIME compose an artifact SHARE share, reflect, lift each other
GUIDING TEXT Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1987), 139. Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. Video of Leonora Perez reading from and reflecting on her prison diaries.
MOOD/MODEL TEXTS Audre Lorde, “ Movement Song ” Mila D. Aguilar, “The People’s Poem”
FORM 8-10 lines of free verse using alternating refrains.
WRITING TIME Drawing on what you wrote in the opening writing exercise, any of the texts we have encountered today, and any other line or fragment in front of you or inside of you, compose a free verse poem of 8-10 lines in which you alternate between two refrains, i.e. Justice… Liberation… Justice… Liberation… OR write whatever is calling you at the moment. CITE YOUR SOURCES AS A PRAXIS OF INTELLECTUAL KINSHIP AND SOLIDARITY.
JASON MAGABO PEREZ
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