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I’m sure you’ve seen it and maybe even felt it, experienced it. Manifestation is everywhere. Folks are talking about it on TikTok, Instagram and I wouldn’t even be surprised if it’s reached LinkedIn. Point being, the gospel of the woo-woo crew is spreading. We out here y’all! And thank goodness. I think this is a good thing, that we are learning how to see without images as Toni Morrison puts in her Nobel Lecture in 1993 when invoking the power of language. But how might we take this practice even further…how might we listen to the images while practicing a grammar of black feminist futurity?

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Citations

• “You, old woman, blessed with blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures.” — Toni Morrison, Nobel Lecture (December 7, 1993)
• Tina Campt, “Quiet Soundings: The Grammar of Black Futurity.” Listening to Images, p. 17.
• Cover Art: Martina Bacigalupo, Gulu Real Art Studio (2014) Image Description: In “GULU_kid 5” a sitter is in front of a red background wearing an oversized checkered blazer atop a navy blue dress of many crescent moons. A small child, also in blue, is resting their head on the sitters lap who has a white box where their head used to be.