Thinking Bout a Black Sense of Place (w/ Treva Ellison and Romi Morrison)

Multimedia artist and scholar whose work enacts Blackness as the imaginative capacity to desire and enact something else and otherwise, Treva Ellison joins the WBI show in conversation with Romi Morrison. Romi is an interdisciplinary designer, artist, and researcher working across new media, Black feminist praxis, and cultural geography. 

Together we think out loud about the epistemic assumptions embedded in sociotechnical systems that aim to calculate Black life; how Blackness is so much more than being a subject of violence. 

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel and Stanley Muñoz

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Links for the episode:

Treva Ellison: Black Trans Reproductive Labor | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Towards a politics of perfect disorder: carceral geographies, queer criminality, and other ways to be
Lloyd's map of the lower Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico
On plantations, prisons, and a Black sense of place
Radicalcartography
Racialized Topographies: Altitude and Race in Southern Cities
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place
What the Sands Remember | GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Counter-mapping data science

Recommendations:
Treva: Keyboard Fantasies | Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Romi: Anyone who can get to water moving water, just, go listen to it. That’s been really coming though for me; the rain, the water, being near any kind of river, being able to put barefoot in soil to ground.