
Becoming Water: Black Memory in Slavery’s Afterlives – Makshya Tolbert
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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Awakening the Wake, the Wake of a Body in Flight
By the end of 20 19, at least one thousand 885 people seeking refuge and or asylum had been claimed by water. Living in italy drove me to a new point of grief. This is what it is to be haunted by water. You move and the ghosts wear different clothes. I learned how running is always still being chased. In bra an, inland commune of 30 thousand, i held this mostly alone. Though alone i was not. It was here that doctor christina sharps, in the wake on blackness and being, re introduced me to the range of the wake. Wake,. the track left on the waters surface a ship, the disturbance caused by a body swimming
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