Desirable Futures Editorial Collective
In 2020, together with six of my current and former students, we founded this collective starting with a set of six AAG sessions that took up a day of the conference and brought together more than 40 participants who have remained in contact through a collective writing group and a diverse set of writing projects including three special issues now accepted and underway at Political Geography, Environment and Planning D, and ACME (a collection of letters!), as well as a book project. This set of interventions brings together Black, Indigenous, and queer of color critique to theorize and make the future.
Against Colonial Grounds Collective
First with our students and now with colleagues from NYU and UT Austin, Andrew Curley and I, have founded a collective that is working to think across the epistemologies provided by Black and Native Studies to create frameworks for understanding the grounds, practices, and theories of our discipline and institutions differently.
Land Back/Abolition Lab at UNC-Chapel Hill
Founded with Danielle Purifoy, the Land Back/Abolition Lab supports graduate and undergraduate students to do public-facing, community-centered research with the goal of material change. Graduate and undergraduate students outline how UNC was built on and later profited from the sale of distant Native lands, people who were enslaved, and through the sale of enslaved labor.
https://linktr.ee/unclandbackabolition
Ladakh Arts and Media Organization
I am fortunate to collaborate with the Ladakh Arts and Media Organization, based in Leh, Ladakh, India. Most recently, we organized a collaborative photography exhibition in 2015, titled “Between Worlds: Ladakhi Student Life Across India.” A catalogue of this work is currently in development.
