An entry into thinking about the construction and meaning-making of black queer families. The “how” and the “what” and even how the “who” can be a deliberate commitment.

A series of volumes spanning from 2009 to 2012 from a journal that focuses on publishing critical scholarship that employ analytical frameworks central to Black and Women & Gender Studies.

This may be useful for a historical contextualization of Black Feminist art and performance and its innovative relationship to ideas like embodiment. Other questions also arise in relation: What is the body but a home? What of art if not experience making? What of performance as architectural building? How is the virtual experienced as a physical reality?

A comprehensive history of art made by African-American women in the “U.S.” that challenges quintessential anti-black racist narratives reasserting African-American women artists as active creators of the expression of their own lives.

A book that brings to the forefront how Black lesbian texts have explored memory, and lost spaces in historical memories.

A collection of essays that touches on everything from self-definition and spirituality, to multigenerational transnational identity formation.

As important as it is to read about histories and genealogies, it is as important, if not more so, to put the knowledge that’s been treasured and refined and obscured and refocused into actual practice. Homemade, with Love: More Living Room does more than just talk about Black girl design and livelihood; it creates and furthers and is Black girl homemade love.
In a similar vein, June Jordan’s Poetry for the People offers another way to be and express that living.

At the heart of the exhibition is love. That much is self-evident. What can that mean and encompass and our choices in all that creation-- bell hooks helps us to sit with it all.

In close connection to the homemade space is the everyday routine and the everyday reaching toward our centers of attention. What does that look like when joy is centered? When we listen deeply to our sense of delight and practice care toward the everyday worlds that we inhabit? What are the architectures of feeling that we build our daily lives inside?

A book on SOLHOT itself, their work, and as the title succinctly puts it: the creative potential of Black Girlhood.

A primer for locating Black feminist thought in our socio-economic political transnational context and the everyday.

A seminal text for thinking about race, class, gender and the politics and hope of it all.

An immediately relevant text by another hugely influential thinker, hooks expounds on visual politics specifically as it relates to Black identity and power. Interviews with Carrie Mae Weems and Margo Humphrey whose work will be exhibited might be of further interest.

Another book of various voices on Black visions of our possible futures and how we might come to get there.

A critical anthology of essays on science fiction in multimedia forms and Afro-futurism.