Collaborations
“A queer Black girl re-imagines the South Carolina lowcountry as a portal for the fusion of Africana (Gullah Geechee) and Indigenous identity, spirituality, resistance, and ways of knowing.” - Sara Makeba Daise
Read more of Be Here Now: The South is a Portal in Root Work Journal.
Black artists respond to contemporary challenges around race, policing, and extrajudicial killings of African American people, and explore common threads of our long, shared and unreconciled American experience with race and racial (in)justice.
The panel was presented by the the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor NHA, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, the National Council for the Traditional Arts, and Southwest Folklife Alliance.
Jade T. Perry—writer, speaker, educator, mystic and co-founder of the Mystic Soul Project—invites Sara for a conversation about time- travel, Afrofuturism, healing and Black folks’ every day magic.
Sara writes “Blessed Are We”, a re-imagining of free folk in Beaufort, SC in 1862 in response to Revelations 1:1-3 for Spark & Echo.
“Surrounded by water, stolen to harvest rice, indigo, and Sea Island cotton in labor camps, Gullah Geechee people’s enslaved ancestors retained and elaborated upon their broad African heritages. Rich in spiritual beliefs, plant knowledge, foodways, music, artistry, and communal customs, they forged new lives in a foreign environment.”
Read more of Sara’s contribution to the educator’s guide for Eden Royce’s debut YA novel Root Magic.
Sara narrates Eden Royce’s brilliant short story Witches for Mars.
Sara presents Black Southern Resistance & Afrofuturism for Usher’s New Look students. Check out a snippet here.
Drisana McDaniel facilitates a magical panel discussion about Sara’s award winning thesis “Come On In The Room: Afrofuturism as a Path to Black Women’s Retroactive Healing”, with Sara, Lisa Young and Jessica Mack. Gratitude to Ms. Brenda Peart for documenting and archiving the transmission.