Courtney Desiree Morris, Jacqueline Francis, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle: A New Vocabulary: Labor, Narrative, and Radical Possibility in the Work of Black Feminist Artists Monday, October 25 | 6:30pm Free and open to the public online; livestreamed and recorded on Zoom. Black feminist thought has been a resource for empowerment of language and creative disruption, used for personal and political transformation. Hortense Spillers’s landmark essay “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” (1987) is an exemplar of this radical tradition; a 2006 conversation about it with Spillers and others is reprinted in the New Time catalogue. An analysis of the Black woman in cultures, histories and literatures, the essay is the inspiration for this conversation, which will build on her enduring insights and explore the labor of Black feminist artists to create a new vocabulary that imagines the human beyond the constraints of heteronormative white supremacy.