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“Our art isn’t valued by white museums, but our artifacts are. Our humanity isn’t valued by white museums, but our bones are. It is in these exclusionary, extractive, and violent environments that our artists are trying to create the art…that can strengthen, inspire, and educate us, art that has helped keep us alive”

“As they started looking into the scientific theories around emergence and emergent properties, Weaver started finding stringing similarities between how smaller entities interacting…in nature can have much larger, and surprising, outcomes, and what they saw in decentralized movement work.”
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“Academia itself is highly problematic in the way it looks at race, Blackness, and Africana..But Black academics have been able to access history and information around Blackness that has been deliberately kept out of public schools and away from the general public…often white supremacy was able to weaponize this lack of information.”

“Accessible, public education is a necessity for our society…we have educators fighting every day to reduce harm to students of color and to create the safety needed to nurture true learning…knowing that there will always be limits on what they can accomplish, and that there will likely always be a steep price to pay for their efforts.”