sx 62 features essays by Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Danielle Roper and Traci-Ann Wint, Fredrik Thomasson, and Simona Bertacco. Our special section, "States of Crisis: Disaster, Recovery, and Possibility in the Caribbean," is guest-edited by Ryan Cecil Jobson and features essays by Greg Beckett, Leniqueca A. Welcome, Sarah E. Vaughn, Adriana Garriga-López , Natasha Lightfoot, and Yarimar Bonilla. Cover artist René Peña doubles as our visual essayist with his work "Hacia adentro". The issue closes with a book discussion of Peter James Hudson's  Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean.

Read the issue here.

From sx salon's editor, Rachel L. Mordecai:

The new issue of sx salon appears against the backdrop of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which, in the United States, is disproportionately affecting Black, brown, and immigrant communities, and also against the ongoing, massive uprising in defense of Black lives and freedom triggered by the murder of George Floyd. We find ourselves in times of anxiety and hope, of terror and possibility.

As always, our intention at sx salon is to present work that nourishes the mind and the soul—speaking of what is, with our eyes always firmly fixed on what can be. sx salon 34 therefore brings you a discussion of Rita Indiana’s cli-fi novel Tentacle, in a special section edited and introduced by Njelle W. Hamilton; a special book reviews section marking the fortieth anniversary of Walter Rodney’s death, edited and introduced by our reviews editor Ronald Cummings; and a wonderful selection of new Caribbean creative writing by Margarita Rosa, Mauricio Almonte, and Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, curated as always by creative editor Rosamond S. King.

Take heart, stay safe, and imagine the world we might bring into being.

Read the latest issue of sx salon here.

Image from https://www.tor.com/2019/03/01/review-of-rita-indianas-tentacle-by-tobias-carroll/

A series of dialogues among Black women scholars whose public intellectual work tells the long history of global anti-racist struggle.

How have Black women scholars deployed the digital humanities to make historically grounded interventions in our contemporary moment? How have they mobilized social and other media to amplify too-often silenced pasts of struggle against anti-blackness and white supremacy? Join us weekly on Thursdays this month 12:30-1:30PM EST for a series featuring Marlene L. Daut and Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Kim Gallon and Marisa Parham, Mame-Fatou Niang and Maboula Soumahoro, and Jessica Marie Johnson and Martha Jones in conversation with Kaiama L. Glover.

For more information and to register for an event, click here.

Our creative editor for sx salon, Rosamond S. King, was searching for an essay about the subtle racism in the language surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and couldn't find one, so she wrote it herself.

Read her essay "Words, Race, and the Pandemic," published by The Progressive, here.

Date: Thursday, June 18  
Time: 10:00 am PDT / 7:00 pm CET

Resolutely Black, a conversation with Françoise Vergès (Independent Scholar, Paris), Matthew Smith (Northern Illinois University), and Donna Jones (UC Berkeley), moderated by Karl Britto (UC Berkeley).

Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs on Zoom for an inaugural event in a series of interventions organized by the Critical South book series. These events will put recently published books on Blackness and decoloniality into timely conversation with our current political moment.

Resolutely Black takes the form of a series of interviews with Aimé Césaire that were conducted by Françoise Vergès shortly before his death. Their conversations take up questions around the origins of Césaire’s political activism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, reparations, and tensions between literature and politics. Who should be considered a citizen of a nation? Should a state recognize slavery as a crime against humanity? What role did the colonies and their inhabitants play in the modernization of metropolitan centers? These conversations around race and coloniality are ones we must urgently return to in order to dismantle all forms of anti-Blackness.

Register here to receive a personalized Zoom link to join the webinar.

Activist Organizations:

Black Visions Collective: https://secure.everyaction.com/4omQDAR0oUiUagTu0EG-Ig2

Reclaim the Block: https://secure.everyaction.com/zae4prEeKESHBy0MKXTIcQ2

Assata’s Daughters: https://donorbox.org/nov-2016-push 

Bail and Legal Defense Funds:

Split a donation: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd

Bail Funds/Legal Help by City Masterlist: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1X4-YS3vFn5CLL9QtJSU0xqmTh_h8XilXgOqGAjZISBI/mobilebasic

NAACP Legal Defense Fund: https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6857/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=15780&_ga=2.246477828.1853192672.1591099079-706652317.1591099079

Columbus Freedom Fund: https://www.paypal.me/columbusfreedomfund

Richmond Community Bail Fund: https://rvabailfund.org/donate

NW Community Bail Fund (Seattle): https://donorbox.org/ncbf

Chicago Community Bond Fund: https://chicagobond.org/donate

Brooklyn Community Bail Fund: https://brooklynbailfund.org/ 

Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim Support: https://www.gofundme.com/f/messiah-young-and-taniyah-pilgrim-bail-money

Protestor Bail Out: https://www.gofundme.com/f/protestor-bail-out?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

People’s City Council Freedom Fund (Los Angeles): https://www.gofundme.com/f/peoples-city-council-ticket-fund
 

Fundraisers for Victims of Police Brutality:

Black Lives Matter link to victim memorial funds: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#victims

Official website for Breonna Taylor: https://www.standwithbre.com/

https://transgenderlawcenter.org/donate

The Tony McDade Mental Health Recovery Fund: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFbCqnPzsY0pSi39i_AjsTpVZpqJ20IOlJoX37N5qOHqN6cA/viewform

Mutual Aid Funds:

Nourish NYC: https://linktr.ee/NourishNYC

Richmond Mutual Aid Fund: https://www.paypal.me/richmondmutualaid

Louisville Mutual Aid: https://www.gofundme.com/f/louisville-mutual-aid-a-new-world-is-possible

NYC Mutual Aid: https://mutualaid.nyc/get-involved/donate/

Detroit Mutual Aid Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-m6QBgqejlk2h6uJ0WGkphZuZ5MR3-uWCkv2vSZcHY8/edit?fbclid=IwAR3XuEWC4TLg8W9vQgBEfed0yA7ZWLBjk20XAjP_twGGd_3X5x0aThUEX4c#gid=1764810953

St. Louis Mutual Aid: https://donorbox.org/stl-mutual-aid-fund

Los Angeles COVID-19 Mutual Aid Network: https://www.gofundme.com/f/covid19-mutual-aid-network

Metro Atlanta Mutual Aid Fund: https://www.atlantamutualaid.org/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5e853482048a040a10998780

Mutual Aid Philadelphia: https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8oNSd8W8KH

Minneapolis Public Housing Residents Mutual Aid Project: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/public-goods/

Appalachian Youth Network Mutual Aid Fund: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mutualaid

Seattle COVID-19 Survival Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/covid19-survival-fund-for-the-people

Albuquerque Fight for Our Lives Mutual Aid: http://www.ffol.org/mutualaid.html

Salt Lake Valley COVID Mutual Aid: https://www.covid19mutualaidslc.com/

Cleveland Pandemic Response: https://cleveland.recovers.org/

East of the River Mutual Aid Fund (BLM DC): https://www.gofundme.com/f/blmcovid

Solidarity Support Distro Boston: https://fundrazr.com/f1dTp3?ref=ab_AWNe0zELiZHAWNe0zELiZH

June 4th at 5:00pm

Live zoom performances by poets Andre Bagoo, Des Seebaran and Shivanee Ramlochan, and the participation of exhibition curator Andil Gosine

Eventbrite RSVP and Zoom link

Watch the documentary “Wendy Nanan” by Andil Gosine

We invite you to visit WENDY NANAN, an #AMAatHome #AMAenCasa beginning May 28 on our four social media walls: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. We will be sharing the exhibition over the course of seven days on all four walls. AMA’s new initiative features exhibitions specifically curated for its social media platforms.

The AMA | Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Permanent Mission of Trinidad and Tobago to the OAS proudly present WENDY NANAN, a retrospective solo exhibition by the pioneering Trinidadian artist. Curated by Trinidadian-Canadian scholar and Small Axe editorial committee member Andil Gosine, WENDY NANAN will be the largest exhibition of the artist’s life’s work, and will include key projects from her repertoire over the last four decades.

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Writer, curator and community educator Eva Yaa Asantewaa recently had the pleasure of interviewing sx salon's creative editor, Rosamond S. King.

Read the interview about King's artistic process and journey as a writer/perfomer on Asantewaa's blog, InfiniteBody, here.

Photo: Brandi Rei Tucker in #SAYHERNAME by Rosamond S. King (photo: RestorationArts), from InfiniteBody

It has been something of a particular challenge to reach the finish line with this fourth issue of our journal, and this for two reasons—both of them, in the end, exhilarating. First, there is what feels like a momentous transition: hatched four years ago and graciously incubated in the luxurious intellectual nest that is the Small Axe Project, we now set off on our very first solo flight. From sx archipelagos we have evolved into the newly-named archipelagos journal—a critical space that is at once very much of its origins and original unto itself, both devoted to SXP’s foundational critical intentions and committed to forms of experimentation and networks of expansion that are unique to our digital Caribbean context. Second, we are making a joyful and ambitious move toward plurilingual representation. Our Caribbean speaks in many tongues, and honoring that reality through translation is our urgent priority. We are thrilled to launch this issue with its trilingual back-end and opening to the possibility of publication here in Spanish and French as well as English—an initial, modest effort toward building a more inclusive and relational intellectual space. There is more to do, we know, and we aim to do it in time, with the help of and in service to the very community that sustains us.

Read the latest issue of archipelagos journal here.