Tell Me About That World: Speculative Archives and Black Feminist Listening

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Columbia Oral History MA Program

“Tell Me About That World” Speculative Archives and Black Feminist Listening Practices
Workshop with Taylor Thompson

How can we build more expansive and rigorous frameworks for imagining sustainable, loving, and liberatory futures? Taylor Thompson believes one strategy is learning to listen to each-other&#x27;s dreams with a deliberate, embodied practice. In the online oral history exhibit &quot;Tell Me About That World: Speculative Archives + Black Feminist Listening Practices&quot; Taylor interviews community care organizers in NYC about the worlds they hope to usher in through their organizing; she then presents a small speculative archive mixtape of those conversations. To accompany the mixtape, Taylor develops a guided listening practice, staked in black feminist tradition, with which to engage the narratives. The listening practice encourages practitioners to constellate the dreams of the narrators as well as their own dreams in order to hone an acute understanding of where and when, why and how, and at what cost those dreams interface with one another. As she writes in the central essay &quot;Towards a Black Feminist Listening Practice,&quot; &quot;this is a blueprint for being in critical and loving relation to one another in our dreaming.&quot;At this event, Taylor will guide attendees through the black feminist listening practice while engaging with the oral histories collected for &quot;Tell Me About That World.&quot; She invites attendees to breathe, to love, to listen.Taylor Thompson (she/her) is a recent OHMA graduate, and a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University where she studied economic history and black feminist theory. Her OHMA thesis, “‘Tell Me About That World’: Speculative Archives + Black Feminist Listening Practices” won the 2021 Jeffrey H. Brodsky Oral History Award, given to one student annually whose work makes an important contribution to knowledge and most exemplifies the rigor, creativity, and ethical integrity that OHMA teaches its students.Image Description: Acrylic painted bust of Black person (Shoulders to head). Face, from chin to forehead, is obscured by paint—no features are defined. Framing the face are a series of collaged flowers and green vegetation. A shell is collaged and pasted upon the ear of the bust. Type printed on image: Tell me about that world: Speculative Archives + Black Feminist Reading Practices Painted/Collaged by Taylor Thompson, 2020These events are open to all. You can use <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_dqlzjv7DAaypptOguQHafOyLcmCkM47OssjndWtOQcSkdw/viewform" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">this quick survey</a> to let us know how we could make these events more accessible for you. Note that we are able to provide ASL interpretation for any event, but need two weeks&#x27; notice. Please contact Rebecca McGilveray at rlm2203@columbia.edu with specific access requests or questions.

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