This presentation and invitation to creative writing is an exploration of strategies and technologies toward decolonization, imagination, and desire.

Featured Presenter: Joshua K. Reason (they/them) is a transdisciplinary scholar-artist from the Bay Area. Their work details Black : Indigenous performing and visual arts in the Americas as rehearsals for freedom beyond the limitations of modernity. Through ethnography, performance studies, cultural studies, and geography, they write and create towards new grammars for sexuality, intimacy, desire, and erotics. Their work has been published in The Black Scholar, The Journal of American Culture, The Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, and becoming undisciplined: a zine. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Black Queer and Trans Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University.

This event is sponsored by the Black Trans Ethical World(un)making Lab, the Department of Black Study, the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Center for Ideas and Society.