To mark the 250th year of the founding of America—a nation built on Indigenous dispossession, attempted genocide, and land theft—let’s gather to write beyond empire, white supremacy, and colonial exploitation. “Freedom requires a species-scale betrayal of our founding mythologies,” writes Black feminist theorist and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs in dub: ceremonies. But once we’ve refused the founding mythologies of this nation, our job as artists is to invent a “poetics of the possible” through which to imagine, invent, and create other possible worlds. What worlds are we summoning, on the page and in the room together? In this generative workshop, we will write together with the option to share what we’ve written and speak those future worlds aloud. A portion of the proceeds will go to Cherokee Preservation Foundation.

Sliding scale $25-55

1-2 Scholarship seats available — contact zfaystindt@gmail.com