top of page
PANEL INFORMATION
Panel 01
“Words Walking Without Masters”: The Liberatory Potential of the Creative-Theoretical
Panel 04
'We Move Between Worlds': Black Feminist Geographies
Panel 02
'Poetry is Not a Luxury': Necessary Lyricism
Panel 05
'Science of the Word': Rhythms Between Nature and Narrative
Panel 07
Creative-Theoretical Methodologies
Panel 03
'Words Made Flesh': Black Textualities and Being
Panel 06
'The Undercommons': Institutional Intentionality and Creative Theorizing
PORCH PROVOCATIONS
PORCH PROVOCATIONS ARE INTERLUDES THAT CONSIDER THE COMMUNITARIAN NATURE OF THE PORCH IN THE BLACK AMERICAN TRADITION. THE PORCH BECOMES AN IMPORTANT SITE WHERE FOLKS DISCUSS EVERYTHING FROM THE QUOTIDIAN TO THE FANTASTIC; WHERE FOLKS THEORIZE AND DEBATE; AND, IN THE TRADITION OF JANIE CRAWFORD AND HER "KISSIN' FRIEND" PHEOBY WATSON, WHERE FOLKS EMPLOY GOSSIP AS BOTH A FORM OF CRITIQUE AND A MODE OF SHARING TRUTHS.
CITATIONS
1. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
2. Audre Lorde, "Poetry is Not a Luxury"
3. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "We Move Between Worlds"
4. Toni Cade Bambara, "Words Made Flesh"
5. Sylvia Wynter, "The Science of the Word"
6. Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, "The Undercommons"
bottom of page