Cultivating Black and Native Futures in Education (June 17-19, 2021) a free virtual conference for scholars, artists, organizers, educators, activists, youth, and practitioners to convene in the spirit of radical joy, love, solidarity, and building what Ashon Crawley has termed “otherwise worlds” or what Leanne Betasamosake Simpson has called a “radical alternative present.”
What does it look like for Black and Indigenous peoples to know our shared history as survivors of state violence, genocide, and settler colonialism, and move together toward imagining collective liberation and celebration of ourselves, one another, our people, and the land/waterways? How can we work to make educational learning spaces – inside and outside of schools/institutions – as sites of exploratory and experiential learning, community accountability and answerability, resurgence and rematriation, and the forwarding of Black and Indigenous futures? We will not have all the answers, but we look forward to building relations together.