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CFL Lit Club #1 - Post-Lit Notes (Mama Day)

Mar 7, 2017
3 min

CFL Lit Club #1 - Post-Lit Notes (Mama Day)

[On December 11, 2016 , Community Futures Lab held the first meeting of CFL Lit Club, a book + film discussion and screening series. For club meeting #1, we read Mama Day and screened the miniseries adaptation of the novel, The Women of Brewster Place, both by Gloria Naylor (who recently passed on Sept 28 - Rest in Power). At the meeting we discussed the themes of community, time, temporality, memory, motherhood, Black womanhood in the books and films, and drew maps of our ow

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North Philly Event Retrocurrences

Mar 2, 2017
4 min

North Philly Event Retrocurrences

Sleep was non-existent that night. I thought they were under my bed. I thought they would come back. I had trouble walking through the house, my body shivered, my movements became inactive. I became vulnerable, my mind was spinning in circles. I did not understand what was going on, I was only eight years old. They flipped the couches upside down, broke my mother’s bed, and stole my uncle’s jar of coins. No, we were not robbed of any material things, but of our privacy. The

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Toward a conversation on digital resistance

Dec 22, 2016
4 min

Toward a conversation on digital resistance

In the course of my work, I have been thinking about digital resistance. I spend a lot of my time on the computer, on my cell phone or other digital devices, and have often noted that while they are in many ways central to my life, they are the source of a great deal of stress, difficulty and even pain and material suffering. Yet, while marginalized communities have always had networks and traditions for providing care - emotional, mental, physical - in the physical, corporea

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Reading the Intern Minutes, Part I: A Sonnet

Nov 25, 2016
1 min

Reading the Intern Minutes, Part I: A Sonnet

Something about the forest makes a girl wanna shoot at something, hold a loaded gun in her hand. Start a fire with the flick of a lacquered finger nail. Eat something. She think this be a forest. Step into the cold, let the core be cold a while, be in the river. Match the skin on the foot with the loosened skin of the river bed. Sift through the rocks, come upon the green clay, let it pass through the space around the hand. She can cook up the whole feast witho

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Brief Thoughts in Black Time — A Series of Non-linear Incompletions

Nov 20, 2016
6 min

Brief Thoughts in Black Time — A Series of Non-linear Incompletions

listen. a woman just came into Community Futures Lab and told me that her son, along with three other youth, was killed this past week. she was a bit intoxicated, and selling hygiene products to raise money. asking for donations. we exchanged information and, before leaving, she told me she was single. that she might need to call on me / us for help.i had a conversation with a man today who told me that for every building that goes up in this neighborhood, two fall down. he d

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Sharswood Portaits

Oct 3, 2016
1 min

Sharswood Portaits

"My first day at the Community Futures Lab, I'd been walking around trying to get the courage to ask people if I could take their picture so I could draw them. I didn't want to pester people, or be intrusive. This woman looked busy and very serious, but I was almost back to CFL from walking around a couple blocks. When I asked her she immediately said yes and posed in a beautiful smile. I was so thrilled I forgot to ask her name!" - by Joyce Hatton #future #portrait #illu

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