& I think that this act of creating archival continuity (in places of archival absences) is the best way of acknowledging & valuing the collective genius of the Colored Convenstions.
As someone relatively new to archival studies, today I find new hope that archives can resurrect histories & voices.

This is why I find the work of the Colored Conventions Project to be of outmost value. Prof. Foreman characterized their work as dig (voiced velar stop) & dig (voiced paletal affricate) & a resurrection of Black archives 8...

This leads to my 2nd point: archives are places of power. So is history. What has historically been preserved & valued in history books, museums, & archives has often been what was valued by those in positions of power. This is why archival absences matter just as much as the archives themselve. 7

Which brings me back to the question that was asked at the beginning: Why is anti-slavery/abolition the history we know? bc that version of history conveniently leaves out much of this distributed agency, masking the collective genius that has always been an integral part of Black history. 6

Colored conventions as was discussed in the talk & in the Q&A after were places where Black collective genius thrived. The conventions, places of discourse, resistance and growth gave birth to generations of cultural, critical & political development (as was mentioned in relationship to the HBCUs)5

In a society where organized resistance from ppl who have been historically enslaved, discriminated against & subjected to violence has been & continues to be criminalized as rebellion, riots, looting etc., any form of resistance that uses & showcases this radical collectivity is at best ignored. 4

Forbes defines Black "criminal" genius as a source of collective, distributed agency that is creative, transformative, and racialized . to me the colored conventions are very good instances of this transformative and distributed agency. 3

1. The Colored conventions themselves, the aggregation and organization of Black resistance and Black activism reminded me of Erin Forbes's extremely well-written and well researched text. Forbes's text views the notion of criminal/criminalized genius in the context of African American history. 2

I did one and you need to be the Hulk to do more than one.

Add to that how freakishly tall Germans are and I have ordered 4-5 sets of pants from various brands since November and have had to return all of them. Ughhh!

Even better than 101 if you ask me. There's no such thing as too many puppies.

Ooh... must-have: danger noodles pendant!

*Lungs/ lol

Disgusting!

Also responding to transphobes is bullying and harrassment.

Saying I am not thankful to JK Rowling because she is a transphobe is bullying and harrassment.

But telling a Muslim man (palastinian explorer) he needs to go back to h*mas apparently does not violate guidelines.

Lol! It does look like the 1972 Reliant Supervan III.

I think making the big step to sobriety and then following through is cause for minimum one celebration a day. 👏👏👏

Oh no!!! Hugs!

Kids are very particular about their chocoloate... you are lucky you survived to tell the tale. 😆