043. Teach What You Want to Learn

For The Worldbuilders

Our breath is the new syllabus. Our survival is the new curriculum. But where is our classroom? This critical geography we must carve out to practice the dis-order that our new world calls for. Black feminist pedagogies have always been critical to my practice. It wasn’t enough to inhale black feminist research — I had to lick it — I had to play with it — I had to stir it — I had to serve it — I had to perform it — I had to breathe it. This was the desire that seeded Seeda School. Inspired by a character that could breathe when I couldn’t seem to catch mine.

Resources:

• Register for the Worldbuilding Workshop Series
• Download the ⁠Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself⁠
• Subscribe to ⁠Seeda School Substack⁠ for weekly podcast and essay releases straight into your inbox
• Follow Ayana on Instagram: ⁠@ayzaco⁠
• Follow Seeda School on Instagram: ⁠@seedaschool⁠
• 3 Body Problem Scene (Youtube)
• Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “The God of Every Day” published by Topical Cream on December 22nd, 2021
• Cover Art: Beverly Buchanan, “Three Familiar (A Memorial Piece with Scars), 1989 [courtesy of the Chrysler Museum of Art, gift of David Henry Jacobs, Jr.] Source: “Beverly Buchanan, Life on the Line” published by Art Papers. Image Description: Three, small, shacks collaged with wood, paint, nails, metal and fire — leaning, grieving, singing, dancing.