week 5
we are afrofutures
Here we underscore that Africana people exist in the future, and time is non-linear. We are the futures our ancestors and elders manifested, and time moves in a spiral. The South is lifted up as a Portal for Africana and Indigenous ways of knowing, and a blueprint for personal and collective liberation.
Nakia Wigfall - 7th-generation sweetgrass basket weaver from Mt. Pleasant, SC - sewing shuku blais with Temne women and girls in Rogbonko Village, Sierra Leone, 2019
Materials
channeling prompts
Think about a negative belief you’ve held about yourself for a long time. Where did it come from? Whom? When did it start? What might you tell a younger version of yourself coming to you with this negative belief? How might you give them a positive reframing?
Imagine an interview conversation between present and future you. Ask/answer the questions you always want to answer/be asked. The insight only you’d have.
Finish the statement: “I feel the most seen/loved when…”
Finish the statement: “I feel most safe when…”
affirmations
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Channeling Prompts
For the next 7 days, record voice memos or videos of/for yourself in the morning and at night (or twice a day). During the days’ first recording, talk about something that makes you laugh, something that makes you feel good, something that makes you hopeful, things you like about yourself, or intentions you have for yourself for no less than 3 minutes. Of course you can go over 3 minutes.
During the second recording of the day, list or describe people/places/things/situations you are grateful for, and ways you feel affirmed. Again, no less than 3 minutes.
Each day, listen to the previous messages before recording the new day’s messages. By day 7, you should have an audio/visual collage of spells documenting daily resources that sustain you. You also have a brand new ritual in your toolkit.
week 6
Healing Present: Afrofuturism & Blk Grl Peace
Here we look at mindfulness and non-monogamy as pathways to healing, and embracing non-linear time.
free Black woman sitting at Bunce Island Slave Castle - in the pen where enslaved women and children were held - Sierra Leone, West Africa, 2019