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In my zine era ✨| Educator 👩🏿‍🏫 | Memory worker 🖤| Rooting for everybody from Queens 💕

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UPDATE: We’re moving this event to Oct 3rd, 12-2pm.

We made a zine! Join us @kingmanormuseum 🎉

Featuring:
✨ Zine trades
💕 Readings
🎤 Open mic

We’ll say goodbye to summer with readings from our lovely contributors followed by an open mic. Share your memories of summer … Or bring a zine to share 🥹.

🔗 Registration link in bio!

@queensmemory @meltingmetropolis @nyfacurrent

This event is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts. by @missroxscott

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Over the coming days, we are excited to introduce our four Storytellers in Residence!
Our first storyteller is @missroxscott Roxanne Scott is a journalist and audio producer in Queens, NY. She covers climate, health and the environment and has been published in the NY Amsterdam News, City Limits and Scientific American.
For her residency, she’ll be based at @kingmanormuseum in Jamaica, Queens. She’s delighted to join Melting Metropolis and King Manor to focus on storytelling around summer, climate and urban heat.
Through writing workshops and other literary events, she’ll foster residents to chronicle personal narratives, family histories and memories. She’ll also delve into archives, field notes and social history to document how residents find joy in staying cool.
You can find Roxanne at community events or taking field notes in a park. She’s looking forward to working with the borough’s readers, writers, researchers and community organizations.
Image credits: 1. Veronica Alt, 2. Roxanne Scott, 3. Courtesy of King Manor Archives. taken in Queens, New York by @missroxscott

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a year ago

The Clearing
Reading and Open Mic +
Nature Journal Workshop
Host: Sherese Francis
@afutureancient

Saturday July 18th, 2 to 5 PM

Drop-in Workshop: Sunday July 19th, 2 to 5 PM

@southeastqueensartists House
407A Colonels Row
Governors Island
New York City

#governorsisland #poetry
#openmic taken in Governors Island by @missroxscott

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So lovely hosting this reading circle at @kingmanormuseum. To celebrate our last session, author @taoleighgoffe will join us for our book talk.

After, she'll lead a creative writing workshop on memory, water and climate. Come to one or both events. Sign up in the link in bio! by @missroxscott

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4 months ago

THE LINEUP - MAY 16 - #DarkLab @governorsisland

First panel features: @pesovisuals @missroxscott @taoleighgoffe

11:30AM - THE ART OF BLACK GEOGRAPHIES:
ISLANDS AND PRINT CULTURE

part of the Dark Lab 🧪 🌌 opening ceremony event - #TheArtOfTheHouseParty

Nathaniel Télémaque AKA St.Peso is a North West London-born and raised visual artist, writer and researcher who photographs, films, records and writes about ‘everyday things’ in various urban and natural settings. Bearing witness to mad cities, poetic caribbean landscapes and maverick livelihoods inspires his audio-visual practices. His lenses focus on the experiences of young Black adults, creative peers and the ordinary moments that make up our day to day lives. He completed his Geography (practice-related) PhD at University College London in 2023 and currently works as a Lecturer in Geography and Social Justice at King’s College London University.

Roxanne Scott is a journalist and audio producer in Queens, NY. She covers health, climate and the environment. Her work has appeared in the New York Amsterdam News, Queens Memory and Scientific American. Her journalism has been supported and recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists, Investigative Reporters & Editors and the International Women’s Media Foundation.

Tao Leigh Goffe is a critically-acclaimed writer, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist who was born in London and grew up between the UK and New York. Dr. Goffe is an associate professor of literary history and cultural theory at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is part of the department of Women and Gender Studies there and Earth and Environmental Sciences @thegraduatecenter. She has been invited to give numerous keynote lectures in histories of race, geology, climate, performance studies, architecture, and media technologies.

RSVP at link in bio to attend. Space limited 🔗 taken in New York, New York by @missroxscott

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⏰ Apply now! 🆓

The CCNow Academy is a free training program for journalists who want to strengthen their climate reporting. Join us and colleagues from around the world, from March to June, for live sessions on science, solutions, justice, health and more.

Apply by February 16th. Learn more at www.coveringclimatenow.org.

#free #training #journalism #CCNowAcademy by @missroxscott

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8 months ago

I feel defeated! But joyous, we made it to the end of semester. Thanks to everyone who came through today to @wgs_huntercollege “Black and Indigenous Ecologies and Technologies”! First time ever taught @cunyedu . Students gave us a brilliant vision for the future, the year 2350! Last year my old department chair cancelled this class before it had a chance to live. We need this living, breathing curriculum. Thanks Dean Chito Childs for advocating this year! Dark Lab as a class. Highlights included the references to the American Indian Movement, Sylvia Wynter, Una Marson, and Cedric Robinson.

We enjoyed Cuban Chinese and Jamaican cuisine. #Nourishment. @darklaboratory

@iamthelibrarybookdragon @carmenlobue @missroxscott @idamomen @lynkeeart @emiliemeimei @yvonne_mpwo @mayacozier @_sophiasteele_ @olugbemisolarhudayperkovich @dayo.joy_ @jadedjaded @outofseam_ @parkesanrec taken in New York, New York by @missroxscott

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10 months ago

Part 1? Done! The first session of the King Manor x @meltingmetropolis Book Club is in the books. Thanks to our in-person and virtual attendees for joining in for today's discussion of Dark Laboratory by @taoleighgoffe

Special thanks to @missroxscott for being our storyteller and discussion leader!

Interested in joining? Check out the link in our bio to fill out our survey. Catch up for our second session in 2026! by @missroxscott

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Rufus has his copy of "Dark Laboratory" ready to go for the King Manor x @meltingmetropolis Book Club. Registration ends soon so sign up at the link in our bio! by @missroxscott

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join us saturday, november 1 for a community zine-making afternoon at King Manor

there, with Roxanne L. Scott, the team at Queens Memory, and the team at King Manor, we’ll be making a community zine in just 4 hours. come by to make your page(s), with materials we’ll be supplying, so we can scan / process / design / print / bind our zine together.

(if you can’t stay until the end we’ll have copies available at King Manor and with Queens Memory through the Queens Public Library afterward)

making something together is so wonderful and at this zine workshop we’re inviting you to think of the change of seasons from summer to fall, to think of memory and, specifically, how remembering is a way to retain what was and be mindful for what will be.

drop by to meet one another, make work together, collage, draw, write, think, and enjoy an afternoon in the company of fellow new yorkers <333 taken in King Manor Museum by @missroxscott

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During #newyorkclimateweek our Community Engagement Lead Anna Ravenscroft visited NYC to spend time with our community partners @newtowncreek @queensmemory @kingmanormuseum and storytellers-in-residence @missroxscott and DaeQuan Collier.

A highlight was visiting Queens Central Library, home to the Queens Memory Project, one of our earliest partners in NYC. After nearly two years of remote partnership, it was fantastic to finally connect in person with its director Meral and her team. Anna, Meral and the QMP team spent time scoping an exhibition to be staged in 2027, which will bring our collaborative work on urban heat into a fantastic local space in Queens.

Anna also held a full-day workshop at King Manor Museum. This session brought everyone together: our two storytellers-in-residence DaeQuan and Roxanne, who presented their emerging stories; our NYC-based academics Kara and Danny, who shared insights on the Urban Heat Island Effect; and all our wonderful partners from across Queens.

Anna also spent a day at the unique site of another partner, Newtown Creek Alliance. Despite many attempts to understand this location remotely, it all came together during a walking tour. It is clear that NCA and their storyteller-in-residence, DaeQuan, face a specific set of challenges in telling stories that reflect everyday experiences of urban heat and health in this industrial setting, particularly for those working year-round in environments with little shade and high heat exposure.

You can read more about Anna’s trip in the most recent edition of our newsletter, link in bio 👆🏻 taken in Queens, New York by @missroxscott

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Join us this Saturday for our annual end of summer skates in the park party. #skates #skateparty #kidsonskates #skatinginthepark #learntorollerskate #outdoorfun #rollerskating taken in Norelli-Hargreaves Playground by @missroxscott

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