“Without new visions, we don’t know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless, and cynical, but we forget that making a revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers and tactics, but a process that can and must transform us” ― Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? production Good Stock on the Dimension Floor written by Dawn Lundy Martin. Still by Tamara Weber. Performer Sienna Shields

& i named her SURELY DIVINE, THE BUS FROM 69. A LOVE AFFAIR. a little over 6 years ago. & now she belongs to someone else. i love you. stay warm in Alaska. stay warm. SHORTBUS DUMBA SHORTBUS ALASKA

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Angels on Earth. This Man from Senegal. Out of a Wim Wenders movie. A Watcher. A creature carrying Care. Worked for 15 years in Spain. Then labored his way to Paris. Saved me from from being attacked and raped in Paris, France in 2009. My Savior. Thank you. I thank you over and over. I wish I knew your name. "We are here because you were there". I love you. Thank you.

[Made from the plastic hair beads and baubles of many a black girl youth/Sienna Shields] [Photos/Karol Slowik]

Alaska and Mey