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Liberation by Abena Busia We are all mothers, and we have that fire within us, of powerful women whose spirits are so angry we can laugh beauty into life and still make you taste the salty tears of our knowledge- For we are not tortured anymore; we have seen beyond your lies and disguises, and we have mastered the language of words, we have mastered speech And know we have also seen ourselves raw and naked piece by piece until our flesh lies flayed with blood on our own hands. What terrible thing can you do us which we have not done to ourselves? What can you tell us which we didn’t deceive ourselves with a long time ago? You cannot know how long we cried until we laughed over the broken pieces of our dreams. Ignorance shattered us into such fragments we had to unearth ourselves piece by piece, to recover with our own hands such unexpected relics even we wondered how we could hold such treasure. Yes, we have conceived to forge our mutilated hopes beyond your imaginings to declare the p
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Title of Work: Gender on the Moon • Shot on a Nikon D7000 • 2/4 (First Edition) • Year: 2018 Caption: Future Genders All gender identities are celebrated in the Afrofuture; the imagined future is a safe space for all members of the LGBTQAI+ community
What if we committed to accountability grounded in compassion?
A utopia for black girls: here, home is a rippling effect of joy in continuum. which is to say that there is no need for safe spaces because everywhere is safe. the spring in our step is directly proportional to the elasticity of joy. our footsteps are fertilizer for bloom because we walk freely: in neighborhoods, our own compounds, in the parking lot, at the grocery store, in a friend's bedroom, at a night club, in broad daylight, underneath a bridge, in the classroom, unknown places, late late at night. fear is a strange phenomenon we keep hearing of - trying to descend in a spaceship on our land. but as far as we know? shit don't exist. safety is communion bread that takes its time to melt underneath our tongues here, neither Rachel nor Leah need to go through the needle of male validation to attain worthiness. when the gavel hits wood we are not found guilty of love our love is not shoved down our throats as mutilated parts of our own bodies it is not sliced up like beef and..
A selection of images from The Afrofuturist Village • Title of Work: Asteria • Shot on a Nikon D7000 • 1/4 (First Edition) • Year: 2018 Caption: Inclusive Futures Black people living with disabilities should not be an afterthought when we imagine the future. Asteria represents this future.
What if our forests, rivers, mountains, animals, all have a right to participate in our governance systems?

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Ama Asantewa Diaka

Too often, mainstream resources about Freedom Dreams and Radical Imaginations center the Global North. In resistance to this, we offer some inspirational resources that center African and Ghanaian contexts.

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