Knowledge Share Description

When the Anthropocene meets decoloniality and critical race theory, we collide at the critical intersection of fashion, food, and water. These are the few necessities that an individual needs to survive and a material and temporal solidarity exists between them. The “Anthropocene” is used to explain how human actions shape the environment in all its physical, chemical, and biological characteristics. Chattel slavery and European colonization define the Anthropocene, followed by decades of the establishment of plantations, the introduction of cash crops, massive clearings of forests, the pollution of waterways, and other economic exploitation. So, what can a Black perspective on the Anthropocene teach us about our relationships to our basic necessities?

Inspired by a lineage of Black matriarchs, through blood and through spirit, this offering will cover the current state of the Anthropocene as it relates to fashion, food, and water; and introduce some healing technologies powered by Black ancestral and current approaches.

We will explore:

• Gain insight into how human actions, particularly chattel slavery and European colonization, have shaped the environment, including physical, chemical, and biological characteristics.

• Examine the material and temporal solidarity between fashion, food, and water as basic necessities for survival

• Learn about the historical impacts of plantations, cash crops, deforestation, pollution of waterways, and economic exploitation within the Anthropocene framework

• Investigate how a Black perspective on the Anthropocene can inform our understanding of relationships to fashion, food, and water

• Explore the influence of Black matriarchs, both historically and spiritually, in shaping current perspectives on the Anthropocene and its related necessities

• Introduce and critically assess various healing technologies and methods rooted in Black traditions and practices for addressing contemporary environmental and societal issues.

Cost

$35 - early bird January 15, 2025

$45 - low income

$65 - standard

$90 - pay-it-forward (if you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our full tuition scholarships)

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The zoom link will be sent upon registration. Recording will be available for 30 days.

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Accessibility Information

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Virtual Gathering

The knowledge share zoom link will be sent out immediately upon purchase, along with any other necessary information.

Sunday February 9, 2024

5:00pm - 7:00pm Eastern Standard Time

Class will be recorded and available for 30 days.

Facilitator

Sha’Mira Covington, PhD, is an artist-scholar, yogi, pole dancer, and liberationist. Her work explores fashion as an embodied cultural, historical, social, and political phenomenon involved in and affected by histories of colonial domination, anti-colonial resistance, and processes of decolonization and globalization. Her personal, artistic, and spiritual work is informed and guided by her ancestors, communities in which she lives, nature, Spirit, and love.