🌱 Through our residencies, fellowships, and public programs, The LP continuously uplifts our community's legacies while breathing life into an equitable future led by Black, Indigenous, POC artists and neighbors. Today, we recall Toni Morrison's brilliant essay titled "The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations".
As part of her book titled The Source of Self-Regard, this essay asks us to reimagine ourselves as authors of time. Morrison creates space for us to consider a world that holds our collective past and the complexities of our present and creates space for a radical liberatory future:
“Perhaps it is the reality of a future as durable and far-reaching as the past, a future that will be shaped by those who have been pressed to the margins, by those who have been dismissed as irrelevant surplus, by those who have been cloaked with the demon's cape..” pg. 126
✨ Think & Reflect: How might we stray away from colonial representations of the past, and instead honor our ancestors, live into the present, and dream of a better future?
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