Upcoming Teach-In: "Tender Mercies: Exploring Agency and Intimacy in the Personal Archives of Black Women Writers" by keondra bills freemyn
Image of keondra bills freemyn (left) and a collage of Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, and Cheryl Clarke (right) by Doriana Diaz.
Join us for an upcoming teach-in, “Tender Mercies: Exploring Agency and Intimacy in the Personal Archives of Black Women Writers” by keondra bills freemyn for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
On Thursday, July 11th at 6:30 PM EST, join us for the upcoming teach-in, “Tender Mercies: Exploring Agency and Intimacy in the Personal Archives of Black Women Writers” by keondra bills freemyn. The teach-in will take place on Zoom.
You can register for the teach-in here: https://bit.ly/TenderMerciesArchive
ASL interpretation will be provided. The event will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube.
This teach-in is for The School for Black Feminist Politics, the political education hub of Black Women Radicals.
About the teach-in: Exploring the archives of 20th century Black women writers, this teach-in focuses on the significance of stewardship and curation of personal archives in understanding creative process and practice. Using scrapbooks, journals, and correspondence found in the archives of Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, and Cheryl Clarke, we will consider the archive as a site of intimacy, interiority, and intergenerational inheritance.
Collage of Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, and Cheryl Clarke (right) by Doriana Diaz.
About the teach-in curator
keondra bills freemyn is a Maryland-based archivist, writer, Wikipedian, and former diplomat originally from South Central, Los Angeles. She is founder of the digital archival initiative, Black Women Writers Project, highlighting the contributions of Black women and gender expansive writers to the literary canon. A poet, essayist, and fiction writer, she is the author of Things You Left Behind and the forthcoming collection, for lovers. keondra is an alumna of Fordham University (BS), Columbia University (MPA), and University of Maryland (MLIS). She is a Society of American Archivists Digital Archives Specialist and holds a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from Harvard University. Her research interests include digital archiving and memory work, personal archiving, digital humanities, and Black cultural production. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
