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a journal + visual archive documenting black and native land history 🌿 • @ indian territory, oklahoma 🌞

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Thank you to everyone who came out last weekend to celebrate 25 years of @processingorg 🙏

📸 @kjhollen

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last call🧵🤍🪡: we’re accepting applications from african nova scotians & all descendants of the underground railroad across canada ✨ link in bio.

class starts saturday 4/26! 🌊 you can apply up until 4/25, 4PM ET.

as class draws near and final acceptances are sent out this week — we’d like to save a few seats for applicants from black communities & families across canada. experienced quilters from canada (of any background) are also welcome to apply. 💫

our cohort of 30+ talented and curious participants bring an interest and love for quilting, textiles, archives, memory, culture, futurity, land, and experimentation 🧪🪡🧶🔮 together, we will learn black quilting + textile history and by the end of our program sew a community quilt reflecting our unique stories. ✨

please share this last open call with your community. :)

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🧵🪡🔥Thank you to all those who have applied to MEMORY PATTERN. It has been such an honour reading your applications — more acceptance emails are coming soon!! 💌✨. In the attempt to make this experience as expansive as possible we’re extending our call for participants — we’re hoping to connect with quilters/textilists and their descendants from the following communities:

✨ Nova Scotia and Underground Railroad communities across Canada
✨The Black South & descendants of the Great Migration: Gees Bend, Gullah Geechee, New Orleans, & rest of region
✨ Afro-Indigenous / Black & First Nations
✨ Elders and experienced quilters

Can you help us build out the rest of our cohort? ☺️ Forward this to your friends, family, colleagues, and community members. 🌱Apps close April 19 at 11:59PM ET.

We’re excited to have you in the magic that will be MEMORY PATTERN II. 💫

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🪡🧵✨Calling all Black quilters, artists, crafters, researchers, archivists, and storytellers based in Canada/US! 🪡🧵✨Apply for 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗡 𝗜𝗜 by Mar 10th, 11:59PM EST - link in bio!

We invite you to apply to 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗡 𝗜𝗜, the 2nd annual cohort of our experimental 4 week Black quilting project in tribute to Daughters of Dorcas, the oldest running Black quilt guild in North America! Alongside 30 participants, explore Black archives, preserve the modern and traditional practice of quilting, & co-sew a cross national collaborative quilt to pay homage to Black textile communities of the past, present, and future! 🧶

We will connect over the topics of slow craft, Black feminist perspectives on cultural preservation, and the enduring importance of community, survival, and placemaking for Black communities via the bountiful @quiltalliance audio archive. Each participant will create a quilt square that will be digitally archived and physically sewn into a community quilt.

Weekly sessions take place on Zoom, Saturdays 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST, from April 26th to May 17th.

We’re seeking a range of perspectives and are excited about applicants of all experience levels (novice, intermediate, advanced), ages, and genders from Canada/US. Free sewing kits available upon request!

The 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 aims to manifest creative depictions of Black past, presents and futures through exhibitions, craft, collective gathering, technology, folk arts and education. Co-Directors @ashleyjanelewis and @moss.portals use archival processes and speculative design to preserve Black culture, connect ancestral knowledge and consider new tools for liberated worlds.

𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗡 𝗜𝗜 is funded by Creativity Everything lab within @thecreativeschl at @torontomet. Creativity Everything lab takes a deliberately broad and inclusive approach to creativity, connecting ideas from a range of disciplines, and seeking to embrace a diverse range of creators and creative practices. We are grateful for Creativity Everything lab’s support in making 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗡 𝗜𝗜 possible✨

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It’s finally a cloudy, rainy, cold day in Dallas - which means it finally feels like a real fall day to my Pacific Northwest assimilated being. It’s also persimmon season - which I always look forward to. I’ve not yet been able to go out gathering them since I just moved back and haven’t yet found the spots they grow. So I hit up the local Korean market and got fuyus. There’s a few ways I like processing them for eating and one is picked persimmons. It’s a sweet pickle rather than a savory one. These are great by themselves or in a salad with bitter greens like an arugula or watercress. Persimmons are a traditional food for many tribes including Choctaw. The brine can be used as a salad dressing as well. Anyway - I promised I’d share my recipe with some homies so here it is: ingredients: 15 fuyu persimmons, 8 oz apple cider vinegar, 4 oz water, 6.5 oz sugar, 1 cinnamon stick, 5 each Appalachian allspice (but reg whole all spice works fine too). Instructions: sanitize 2 quart size mason jar & lid. Wash, peel, and remove tops of persimmons. Dice or slice persimmons into bite sized pieces. Remove any seeds. Place persimmons in a clean jar. In a small saucepan on medium heat, add the apple cider vinegar, water, sugar, allspice, and cinnamon stick. Let brine come to a simmer, stirring until sugar is completely dissolved. Pour brine - including cinnamon stick and whole allspice - into the jar with the persimmons, cover with lid and refrigerate overnight. The pickled persimmons are ready to eat the next day. They will keep in the refrigerator for about a week. Important pro tip: persimmons develop their sugars after experiencing the first frost of the season. You super don’t want to eat an unripe persimmon as it’s high in tannins (will feel like your mouth is dried out). One unripe persimmon can ruin a whole batch. To ensure you get all ripe persimmons, replicate the first frost by throwing them all in your freezer until fully frozen. Take out and allow to thaw in your fridge or on the counter. Begin the process described above after thawing them. Their sugars should be fully developed. #traditionalfood #persimmons #persimmon #choctaw #impa #food #fallrecipes

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Tomorrow, Thursday, July 28th at 7pm ET, participants from our summer classes and sessions will give short presentations to introduce themselves and what they have been learning about. Join us on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/sfpc_nyc. RSVP in bio! ⁣
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Our Summer 2022 classes are Expressive Design with Videogames, Me, Myself & I? Meditations on Mirrors, Thresholds, and Selves and Learning to Love Math. Our special sessions for the summer include Experiments in Networked Performance and SFPC: Sex Ed. ⁣
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Participants sharing include:⁣
Anahit Gulian⁣
Andrew Kleindolph ⁣
Andy Rolfes ⁣
Bethelihem Gebresilasie⁣
Carey Flack ⁣
Emily Latinsky-Ortiz⁣
Estrellx Supernova/EHQS⁣
Fiona Rowan⁣
irene villasenor⁣
Kelly Dinneen ⁣
Leia Chang⁣
Luna OG⁣
Margot Armbruster⁣
Megan Anderson⁣
Rashad Bailey⁣
Sally Kong⁣
Val Yang⁣
yifan wang

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A few months ago, I noticed a lot of black and brown community members engaging in discussions about queer athletes, specifically transgender swimmers and runners. At best, many commentators were trying to mask their [transphobic] discomfort behind ugly feminism and gendered separatism . . . at worse, some individuals doubled down on segregationist rhetoric that came right out of the Jim & Jane Crow Handbook 🤦🏾‍♀️

This "public discourse" was NOT about creating safe environments for young folks (folx) to play sports. This "national conversation" was NOT about "respecting" women atheletes. This antiqueer backlash was about reinforcing the rigid, colonized gender norms of imperialism and the ecosystem of white supremacy.

While there is a MUCH larger discussion to be held about the intersectional role empire-building and race play in cultivating environmental racism, the commodification of women and wombs, rugged individualism, the spectacule of non-white existence, and ugly feminism, we will save that deep dive for another summer's day.

Whether you embrace queerness as an interwoven, intergalactic landscape of identities and lived experiences that transcend the Global North's [predominantly whitecentric and capitalist] LGBTQ+ Movement or you are still working your way through chapter one of "How to be Antiracist," keep in mind that:

💫 Queerness is an ancestral practice that saturated our pre-colonial continents and cultures.

💫 Queerness was a tool of resistance and reclamation against European settler-colonialism and slavery.

💫 Queerness centers our indigenous and diaspora histories, starlore, and memories, using these collected fragments of our multicolored human condition as tools to dismantle the master's house.

💫 The past, the present, and the future is queer! 🌈

Come join our community garden over on Patreon and begin accessing decolonized resources and lessons this summer! (link in the bio 👆🏾✨️🌸)

#historygrammer
#AfronautGriot
#BlackPatreon
#pride🌈
#afrofuturism
#translivesmatter
#CiteBlackWomen
#WeGlowandSpark
#padawanhistorian
#AntiracistLiberation
#decolonizeyourmind
#blkhistorygrammers
#QueernessIsAncestral

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I apologize if my last post was insensitive to these sentiments. We need to talk about this! I don’t like the idea of Black Natives being an afterthought to a non-Black Native creator. However, in other pop culture shows we get so excited when there is one Native on the cast, even if that one character’s story isn’t centered. I also shouldn’t speak for this area. I’ve never been to the Mvskoke rez, but based on these experiences the creators should be held accountable for not including more Black Native characters on the show.

I do think the same internalized oppression we perpetuate in our communities as a result of white supremacy also shows itself in Hollywood and film. Are Native creators contributing to erasure of Black Natives in the same ways white Hollywood tried to erase all of us?
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#blacknatives #representation #rezdogs #rezdogsfxonhulu #hollywood

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On today of all days, we say Happy Juneteenth to all our black and black native relatives! As we dream of and begin to conceptualize futures for our peoples that is vibrant and steeped in our cultural ways - let us not forget in the celebration of today that on this day the freedmen of our tribes were not free and would not be for some time. Let us not forget that many of the freedmen are related to us by blood and also by culture. Let us not forget that they too walked the trail of tears with our ancestors and carried their burdens - only to remain enslaved when they reached Indian Territory. Let us not forget that when folks speak of Black Wall Street , remember that it was built by Cherokee and Mvskoke freedmen - and that it was other freedmen- such as Chickasaw freedmen Buck Colbert Franklin - that helped to fight for justice for folks after the massacre. If you do not know their histories and contributions - learn them, and step up to help fight with them for the rights they deserve. Let us remember our kin as we remember and revive our traditional ways and practices. Visit www.okfreedmen.org to learn more and donate. Art work by @nitaohoyo #westandwithfreedmen #juneteenth.

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Traditional ecological knowledge.
Ancestral knowledge.

Staying touch with the seasons, listening and observing the natural world.

Let’s make an effort this year to be outside.

#traditionalecologicalknowledge
#ancestralknowledge
#observe
#listen

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The history of collard greens
From @pressed.roots
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Through the horrors of the middle passage and then the bindage that took places across turtle island, it was the seed of the collard green that survived with our ancestors.
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tucked inside each collard green is a story of our generational creativity, resilience, love, and tradition.
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Today we give thanks to the foods that stood by our ancestors—the foods that continue fo feed us and our families today.
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Tell us how your family prepares collard greens 👇🏾
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Posted @withregram • @pressed.roots but i need you to understand that where we are right now is not beautiful.

quite honestly, the reality of where we are today is hard to press into 24 hours of intense conversation. one indigenous day is not enough. one indigenous month is not enough.

we can’t spiritually bypass this one. we can’t love the land out of this one. we have to want something different. together, we gotta feel called to imagine something different.

so let’s do more. let’s work to become the ancestors that inspire our descendants to action. let’s design new, more inspiring futures out of this place that we’re in.

if we’ve learned anything this year, it’s that the possibilities are endless. 🤍 because of past/present/future, the narrative can still shift. ✨

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