Meet me in the middle of the air and if these wings don’t fail me I will meet you anywhere aint no grave can hold my body down… -Odetta, Aint no grave To describe the relationship between a body and forces acting upon it we must discuss how a body falls in space. […]
nonhuman turning; no settlements/no borders
I am a vine creeping down the moon I have no keeper – There is no settling for the nonhuman. It is always turning, forever in […]
upside-down and under the spell
Living in the upside-down of time as linear discourse is the product of a hegemonic idea deeply rooted in colonialism. Who can say how time ends and begins? This is a decision made by the powers of domination which reverberate like the church bells marking every hour… For Cusicanqui we perform our commitment to modernity […]
manifesting between the gap
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete Proving nature’s laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams it learned 2 breathe fresh air Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared! -Tupac In […]
seeing through the binding lightness
Amie Césaire asks us to unpack what colonization appears to be; it doesn’t come from the desire to liberate, or to educate others, nor is it a project undertaken for an evangelical savior—colonization is a form of civilization which feels entitled to encroach and encompass the entirety of the world under its “baleful projected shadow” […]