The Diaspora Solidarities Lab

Introducing the DSL MicroLabs!! 🌺🌞🧵

open.substack.com/pub/lifexcode/… We’re excited to announce our upcoming Artist Talk for the Destierro Exhibition Friday, April 18th at 5:30PM ET. Join us in person or via IG Live!

as well as to Rachel Schupbach and Sharon Hodgson) Photos by: Christina Randolph

to Dean Christopher Celenza), and the University of Maryland Department of African American and Africana Studies through the generosity and support of the Mellon Foundation’s grant, The Past and Future of Black Studies (special thanks goes to Drs. John Drabinski and Ashley Newby,

(special thanks to Dr. Lawrence Jackson and Dr. Nathan Connolly); and The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies; with additional support from Eindevr | Data Science for the Digital Humanities, The Krieger School for Arts and Sciences at JHU (special thanks

we love you!), @life_x_code (special thanks to Dr. Nadejda Webb), Johns Hopkins University Center for Africana Studies (special thanks to its Director, Dr. Minkah Makalani); The Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, The Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts

assistance and support throughout the planning of the event and for ensuring smooth operation throughout the evening. Many thanks to our sponsors for trusting our vision and supporting it: our sponsors: @dslprojects (Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson and Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez,

@dslprojects @blkwomenradical and rebellion of its people. Read the blog post here: blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/a-da… More on After the Storm: afterthestormcollective.com More on Black Women Radicals: blackwomenradicals.com

@dslprojects @blkwomenradical Entitled “A Daughter’s Love Note: Decolonial Love Across the Greater Caribbean,” the blog interrogates the teachings of the Combahee River Collective and bell hooks to make visible Afro-Diasporic bonds across the Caribbean and bear witness to the survival, restoration...

The members of After the Storm, a collective of Black and Latinx feminists, scholars, organizers, and teachers of the Greater Caribbean & seed lab of @dslprojects, published a blog post for @blkwomenradical this week!

Our latest Scholar Spotlight features Jessica Newby, Co-Lead of @remainsarchive and PhD Candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University. Check out our Substack for our full interview with this (interdisciplinary) historian of enslaved women in colonial Jamaica to learn about...

Dr. Kiana González Cedeño, Assistant Professor of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University and Solidarity Fellow with the @dslprojects, will present her research in this Friday, Nov 22 at 9 AM EST at the African Studies Global Virtual Forum 2024-25.

Last week, Remains // an Archive was in Cambridge, MA to present to the @historydesignstudio (Harvard) about their past and present projects in the @dslprojects, including the “Slavery in Motion” project.

@dslprojects Many thanks to Dr. Vincent Brown for the invitation, and to all of the students of the HDS for their thoughtful questions and invigorating discussion! See the LifexCode Substack for more! @remainsarchive open.substack.com/pub/lifexcode/…

Our deep gratitude to Professor Vincent Brown for his generous invitation and warm welcome, Ione Barrows for the behind-the-scenes work of getting us to Cambridge, and to all the students of the History Design Studio for their deep and thoughtful engagement with us and our work!

The discussion ranged from the importance of Black feminist ethics and praxis, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the ways in which they prompt us to ask different and necessary questions, the meaning of pedagogy in relation to the stewarding of Molia’s story, and more.

…the Black diaspora based upon Jessica Newby’s (Remains co-lead) field shifting paper “Country Name, Molia,” about the experiences of an African young woman named Molia who was enslaved for thirteen years in eighteenth century Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica.

Among these projects were Remains' lab member and Solidarity fellow Samantha Stephens' "Secret Histories of Coombah", and the “Slavery in Motion” project. "Slavery in Motion" is a collection and art installation of four commissioned artworks by four Black women from across…

Less than 48 hours after gathering in Charleston, SC for the @dslprojects’s final symposium, Remains reunited in Cambridge, MA, where we had the honor and pleasure of speaking to students of the @HutchinsCenter’s @HistoryDesign at Harvard University about our projects.

A WORD ✍🏽 The Black School’s Program Manager Lana Meyon speakers about what it means to be born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana — Community partner to Diaspora Solidarities Lab (@dslprojects) at Across The Archipelago convening in Charleston, South Carolina this weekend! 👏🏾

This past weekend, we were in Charleston for @dslprojects’s final symposium. A powerful and intimate gathering of fellowship and celebration of the beautiful work that the microlabs of the DSL have produced over the past few years. Forever grateful to @DrYoFiggy and @jmjafrx ✨