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We are excited to collaborate with HEKLER Assembly for a reading group taking place on Friday July 31 at 4pm EST (New York). alea adigweme, manuel arturo abreu and the Center for Afrofuturist Studies (CAS) team will be hosting the conversation. They bring the following questions for the Assembly: How do we make space for Land and People with complicated histories to "speak"? How do we decolonize understanding and shaping of self, time, and the future we co-create?

The reading group will be led by artists alea adigweme & manuel arturo abreu who will share their practices, selected readings and lead the conversation focusing on decolonial reading strategies of dominant and personal histories, post-slavery stereotypical representation of blackness and intimacy of witnessing black death.

Please find the selected readings in this folder and use this shared document to learn more about our hosts where you will find links to selected videos in the artists' reading list section. At the bottom, you are welcome to add your thoughts, notes, and feedback before, during or after the gathering that we can all address during the conversation or find helpful later.

HEKLER ASSEMBLY is a transnational space for cultural workers to share, discuss and collectively imagine new ways of instituting based on the principles of self-organizing, community care, critical thinking, political education, and healing as commons.

Learn more about HEKLER at hekler.org