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SUMMARY:The Practicing Refusal Collective
DESCRIPTION:City Lights and FSG Originals celebrate the publication of Th
 inking from Black: A Lexicon by The Practicing Refusal Collective (Edito
 rs:Tina Campt\, Kaiama L. Glover\, Canisia Lubrin\, Tavia Nyong’o\, Chri
 stina Sharpe\, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye) Published by FSG Originals Join
 ing us will be Ronald Cummings\, Canisia Lubrin\, Darieck Scott\, Jared 
 Sexton\, Savannah Shange\, and Christina Sharpe in discussion. Thinking 
 from Black: A Lexicon is an unusual reference book. Its contributors—the
  Practicing Refusal Collective—are visual artists\, poets\, dancers\, hi
 storians\, writers\, architects\, painters\, theorists\, activists\, ant
 hropologists\, filmmakers\, educators\, and musicians. Each has engaged 
 with the idea of a lexicon of Black living and taken up the invitation t
 o think from Black in relation to their own medium. Some terms are enunc
 iated in a poetic register—such as Redaction\, Seeing\, and Song. Some a
 re aspirational—such as Solidarity\, Garden\, and Care. Some entries\, s
 uch as BlackSound\, Fantasy\, Mathematics\, and Dispossession\, work in 
 a more theoretical idiom. Words such as Gesture and Syncopation are comp
 osed of both text and drawings\, and summon the body in motion. The word
  Time\, which is defined twice\, carries with it musicality\, duration\,
  and refusal. Together\, these definitions offer a sense of some of the 
 many ways that Black people tend to each other and the world. Read in re
 lation to each other\, the terms create a rich\, startling lexicon that 
 is eclectic\, elliptical\, cross-genre\, historical\, speculative\, and 
 literary—a set of words\, phrases\, concepts\, and ideas that are part o
 f the many languages constituting and animating Black life. Thinking fro
 m Black is a book to be read with others\, as it was created. It is a bo
 ok to live and think and act with\, in the world. About the participants
  Ronald Cummings is Professor of Caribbean Literature and Black Diaspora
  Studies at McMaster University (Hamilton\, Canada). His work focuses on
  Caribbean Studies\, queer studies\, literary archives and historiograph
 y\, Black political thought and social movements. Canisia Lubrin is a wr
 iter\, editor\, and teacher. Lubrin’s books include Code Noir\, The Dyzg
 raphxst\, and The World After Rain. Born in St. Lucia\, Lubrin lives in 
 Whitby. Darieck Scott is Professor of African American Studies at UC Ber
 keley. Scott is the author of Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and
  Superhero Comics (2022)\, a 2023 Lambda Literary Award winner\, and Ext
 ravagant Abjection (2010). Scott’s novels are The Dream-Slaves (2024)\, 
 Hex (2007) and Traitor to the Race (1995). Jared Sexton is an educator a
 nd critic based in Los Angeles\, and professor emeritus of African Ameri
 can studies at UC Irvine. His most recent book is Lucifer’s Nocturne. Sa
 vannah Shange is associate professor of Anthropology and Critical Race &
  Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her book\, Progressive Dystopia: Aboli
 tion\, Anti-Blackness and Schooling in San Francisco (Duke 2019) is an e
 thnography of the afterlife of slavery. She currently works in collabora
 tion with organizers to document and amplify the practice of abolition i
 n everyday life. Christina Sharpe is a writer and professor. The author 
 of three books\, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2024)\
 , the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize for the Sciences and Huma
 nities (2024)\, a Windham-Campbell Prize in Nonfiction (2024) and the Ki
 llam Prize (2025). This event is made possible by support from the City 
 Lights Foundation.\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-practici
 ng-refusal-collective-tickets-2000523867741?aff=oddtdtcreator\n\nhttps:/
 /findlocal.community/event/59b65b88-04b6-4dbb-8d3f-ec18761b6fb8
LOCATION:Canneti's Bookshop\, Moraga Way\, Orinda\, CA 94563
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/59b65b88-04b6-4dbb-8d3f-ec18761b6fb
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