FEATURED POST

Trilogy Black is a project birthed out of love, grief, trauma, and a relentless commitment to loving on those of us who are always on the shoreline and never in the water. The founders, Cat Smith and Iyana Robin, are two Black and Native queer feminists who are invested in creating a space to theorize, experience and explore the conditions of what it means to live in the wake of the apocalypse. These are the conditions of death and loss that intimately touch all of us, though those of us who exist at the nexus of life/death through empire’s pervasive forms of anti-Blackness, colonization, conquest and racialized capitalism are who this blog seeks to speak to and with, learn from, and build community with. We believe in the liberation of all colonized people everywhere. From Chicago & Newark to Cop City, Haiti, Palestine, Sudan, Tigray, DRC, and all other occupied territories whose inhabitants are intimately touched by the violence of empire in the Global South and trapped within the imperial core. We hope to open this space as an open mediation of what it means to live, breathe, and take flight in the face of empire’s brutality. This invitation to share our lives, our experience, our thoughts, and our theorizations seeks to provide a space for learning, growth and dialogue through an analysis of life, literature and mixed media. Our goal is to connect through community deliberation over critical texts and media that shape our lives and provide us a grammar to sit with love, loss, joy, and sadness in the direction of flight and liberation. We know that our speech acts are not only our own, but influenced across time, generations, ancestors, elders, and community members. It is our hope that Trilogy Black: Life, Literature and Blackness will be a location for the dispossessed to convene through study and community. For we know that these intimate spaces are fugitive, life saving and radical acts. This blog is a journey through the theft of time and the precarity of Black and Native life to speak amongst the cacophony of black resistant voice and to faciliate an exchange of our hopes, desires, and dreams for an otherwise world. We hope you all enjoy!