Sensing Our-relations-a-writing-workshop-with-sa-smythe

Join us in a writing workshop led by writer and artist SA Smythe, in response to Movement Two: Ecology featuring Christina Battle’s how to make sense out of the nonsensical. The artist’s images ask us to interrogate regimes of meaning-making in the context of ongoing catastrophe. Across the lightboxes, texts from the series instruct us to “CONSIDER WHO YOU'RE IN RELATION WITH,” among other directives. Smythe will guide participants through a series of writing prompts to engage with the provocations raised by Battle’s work. The workshop is open to writers of any genre who want to think through the relationship between language, violence, and possibility.

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Dr. SA Smythe (they / them) is a poet, transdisciplinary artist, translator, and critical theorist committed to black belonging beyond all borders and studying how archives of otherwise possibility come to be narrated, realised, and remembered. Formerly an assistant professor in the Departments of Gender Studies and African American Studies at UCLA, Smythe joined the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information as Assistant Professor of Black Studies and the Archive in July 2022. They are the editor of “Troubling the Grounds: Global Configurations of Blackness, Nativism, and Indigeneity” special issue for Postmodern Culture and author of the forthcoming monograph, Where Blackness Meets the Sea: On Crisis, Culture, and the Black Mediterranean and poetry collection, proclivity.

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Sensing Our Relations: A Writing Workshop with SA Smythe