EMILIA-AMALIA SESSION XIII:
ABOLITIONIST POETICS AND THE PRACTICE OF DREAMING
A writing workshop with Jackie Wang
Saturday, 30 March 2019, 1–3 PM
In partnership with the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Hosted by Dames Making Games and the Toronto Media Arts Centre
32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON  M6J 0C9
In the Dames Making Games workshop space (3rd floor)

“Poetry…is not what we simply recognize as the formal ‘poem,’ but a revolt: a scream in the night, an emancipation of language and old ways of thinking.”

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Robin D. G. Kelley

In this workshop, participants will explore the relationship between poetry and social imagination. Using dreams to access a mode of thinking that does not concede to the realism of the present, the session seeks to shatter the captivity of bodies and imaginations through writing exercises (feel free to bring your dreams!) and discussions responding to textual and filmic clips.

Session limited to 15 people.
To reserve a spot please RSVP via the eventbrite.
The space is fully accessible. Details about accessibility at the Toronto Media Arts Centre can be found here. For elevator access attendees should follow the main elevator to the 2nd floor.

Jackie Wang is a black studies scholar, poet, multimedia artist, and Ph.D. candidate in African and African American Studies and History at Harvard University, specializing in race and the political economy of prisons and police in the US. She recently published a book titled Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e) / MIT Press) on the racial, economic, political, legal, and technological dimensions of the US carceral state. Her interest in this topic is rooted in her experience of having an imprisoned brother who was sentenced to juvenile life without parole as a teenager. She is the recent recipient of a fellowship at the Schlesinger Library, where she conducted research on the life and legacy of Angela Davis. She has also published a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme, and a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious).