WORKSHOP PRINCIPLES Care for self, care for others. Set intentions - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

WELCOME TO ARTIFACT LAB 1 OF 8! WORKSHOP PRINCIPLES Care for self, care for others. Set intentions upfront — for whom & for what are you showing up? Think & create with a humble, generous, & “radical intellectual openness” (Critical Ethnic Studies Collective). OPENING FREE WRITE Build a list of sensory details, sensory knowledge. List some details your ancestors would like you to know, see, hear, feel, smell, taste. List some details future generations might need to know, see, hear, feel, smell, taste.

LEARNING OUTCOME To compose an artifact that might help the future understand our struggle, our joy, our fight. THE PROCESS FREE WRITE on sensory details as sensory knowledge INTRODUCTION what inspires this space “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (Lorde) + Silencing the Past (Trouillot) GUIDING TEXTS “Letter to Our Unborn Children” (2Tongues) (s/o Vineeta Singh) POEM FORM the refrain as world-generator (s/o to Hari Alluri) WRITING TIME compose the artifact! SHARE/REFLECTION share, reflect

GUIDING TEXTS Lorde, Audre. “Poetry Is Not a Luxury.” Sister Outsider: Essays and Speech . Crossing Press, 2007. “For within living structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive” (39). “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before” (38). Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History . Beacon Press, 1995. “But peoples are also the subjects of history the way workers are subjects of a strike: they define the very terms under which some situations can be described” (23).

MODEL TEXT “Letter to Our Unborn Children” I Was Born with Two Tongues

FORM The refrain as world-generator: “because freedom was more than bread” “because not to say was to vanish” “because no one believed we existed”

WRITING TIME Using the refrain “because…” compose an 5 -8 line poem that oscillates between details your ancestors might need you to know and details the future might need to know. You can also sample lines from “Letter to Our Unborn Children.” OR Simply be open, be free, and assemble the poem that is calling you right now. NEVER FORGET TO CITE YOUR SOURCES AS A PRAXIS OF INTELLECTUAL KINSHIP AND SOLIDARITY.

JASON MAGABO PEREZ