Diasporic Solidarities Conference

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My deeply trusted 18th century colleague (and I dare say, friend) @zugenia is one of the North Stars of my work. Her thinking & questions on community, building trust, and the making of art is, I think, timely for many of us -- including folks trying to find their way in #TTRPG.

Thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us today and your attendance yesterday!

@aconcisehistory never fails to move me with his work! I've learned so much from the ways that she sat with negative affect, and brought us into it alongside her. I can't wait to read Ordinary Failure. It seems like work I (and we) need.

And that's it! Thank you to all speakers and panelists for their generative and thoughtful contributions to #DiasporicSolidarities over the last two days. Thank you, as well, to all who attended the conference and helped make it such a great event.

Adrian De Leon (@aadeleon) reflects on how space colonialism - cosmology - and hydrocolonialism - waters - are "under threat of disappearance and vanishment." #DiasporicSolidarities

Oonya Kempadoo (@oonyakempadoo) reflects on how she is somebody else with a relationship with water that is different to "the white adventure diver or white sailor crossing the seas type of traditional patriarchal ideas to do with the hydrosphere." #DiasporicSolidarities

@KaleFajardo asks a fantastic question about water as "simultaneously a foundational medium in Black and Diaspora studies, but also still a site/entity, where we can still tell new or alternative stories?" #DiasporicSolidarities

Nadine Attewell (@NadineAttewell) shares Eric Gansworth poem "Cross PolliNation" to think about community building and relation building through Gansworth's "process of reaching and being held and sort of catching." #DiasporicSolidarities

"I just want to say I feel so invested in the risk-taking of intimacy, even though it is painful" - Ianna Hawkins Owen (@aconcisehistory) #DiasporicSolidarities

It "comes back to that vulnerability and that risk that you're taking. That sometimes leaves these scars. It feels like you're really sort of exposing yourself the more collaborative the work is" - Oonya Kempadoo (@oonyakempadoo) #DiasporicSolidarities

"So much of solidarity begins with trust, which also, too, is such an embodied feeling and is such an embodied contingency feeling, space to space, person-to-person, relation to relation." - Adrian De Leon (@aadeleon) #DiasporicSolidarities

Eugenia Zuroski (@zugenia) asks a question between trust and risk. "Who is it that you want to build trust with? Who is it that you desire -- who is it that you need or want to trust? Where does that fit into your practice and art making?" #DiasporicSolidarities

"That sense of creative solidarity is, I think, a very hopeful space" - Oonya Kempadoo (@oonyakempadoo) #DiasporicSolidarities

Adrian De Leon (@aadeleon) reflects on scale and on "how much the nation-state has usurped our ideas of scale and of scope in terms of how the nation-state refracts ideas of not just revolution, but also in solidarity, but also representation and recognition in their failures."

Nadine Attewell (@NadineAttewell) reflects on how solidarity is something of the global since relations are forged through struggle within their global contexts. #DiasporicSolidarities

There are "kinds of ways that we desire to work with one another and be with one another and the ways that we fail those intimacies and those larger levels" - Ianna Hawkins Owen (@aconcisehistory) #DiasporicSolidarities

"Is solidarity naming a specifically local, interpersonal, of the moment kind of relation that makes other broader ways of relating possible?" - Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia #DiasporicSolidarities

"Failure doesn’t mean we stop trying or close our hearts to risky intimacies." - Ianna Hawkins Owen (@aconcisehistory) #DiasporicSolidarities

"Surrounding diaspora with our demands, our doubts, and our revisions, the keyword begins to fray. It is not made sturdy by ideological unity nor loving identification" - Ianna Hawkins Owen (@aconcisehistory) #DiasporicSolidarities

"Failure is disappointing but, it is also a rather ordinary fact." - Ianna Hawkins Owen (@aconcisehistory) #DiasporicSolidarities