RADICAL IMAGINATION
where Black, Indigenous and people of color can radically imagine new possibilities for the future, with joy and ease.
We desire to see Black and Brown people in nature, breathing fresh air, and in community with each other in a space designed for their creativity to flourish.
We are reclaiming the land and dismantling the artificial hierarchy around who can access nature – and be enveloped by its spirit. Part of this experience is creating a safe and comfortable space for Black, Indigineous, and people of color in a rural environment. You should feel like you belong here because you do. Each person deserves the freedom to explore their imagination, ideas, and future projects.
We are reclaiming the land and dismantling the artificial hierarchy around who can access nature – and be enveloped by its spirit. Part of this experience is creating a safe and comfortable space for Black, Indigineous, and people of color in a rural environment. You should feel like you belong here because you do. Each person deserves the freedom to explore their imagination, ideas, and future projects.
All Projects
First up, a list of books to expand your radical imagination, pushing boundaries in creativity, justice, and visionary thinking:
🔥 On Revolutionary & Decolonial Thinking
- "Pleasure Activism" – adrienne maree brown
- "Caliban and the Witch" – Silvia Federici (recently ordered from Library)
- "Decolonizing Wealth" – Edgar Villanueva (an old friend of mine works with/for this guy)
- "The Wretched of the Earth" – Frantz Fanon
- "Borderlands/La Frontera" – Gloria Anzaldúa
- "Freedom Is a Constant Struggle" – Angela Davis
- "Emergent Strategy" – adrienne maree brown
🎨 On Art, Creativity & Imagination as Resistance
- "More Brilliant than the Sun" – Kodwo Eshun
- "The Poetics of Space" – Gaston Bachelard
- "Staying with the Trouble" – Donna Haraway (recently ordered from Library)
- "Art on My Mind: Visual Politics" – bell hooks
- "Glitch Feminism" – Legacy Russell
- "Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals" – Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- "All About Love" – bell hooks
🌱 On Utopian Futures & Radical World-Building
- "M Archive: After the End of the World" – Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World" – Tyson Yunkaporta (recently ordered from Library)
- "Parable of the Sower" – Octavia Butler
- "The Dispossessed" – Ursula K. Le Guin
💭 On Visionary Economics & Mutual Aid
- "Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines" – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Mai’a Williams
- "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded" – INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
- "Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)" – Dean Spade
- "Doughnut Economics" – Kate Raworth
- "The Ministry for the Future" – Kim Stanley Robinson
Some Updates
︎︎ Spring 2025
We are launching our latest initiative, “Amplifying Landback”, while we would never claim ownership of this revolutionary concept, we want to promote the idea. Amplifying communities, groups, projects, conversations and individuals doing landback work is critical to the health of our environment, our wellbeing and our futures as people on earth. If this is you, we can’t wait to connect.
︎︎ Winter 2025
Check out this article about our work with NEFOC and NEW SUNS COMMUNITY CENTER!!! https://www.vnews.com/Community-Center-Creates-Space-for-BIPOC-Vermonters-58253607
︎︎ Summer 2023
In Vermont, we are working tirelessly to stock the tool share at our community space. We are also building out the radical Liberation Library on location. Want to get involved! Give us a shout.
In Oslo, let us know if you want to meet at the Oslo Badstuforening for a sauna and cold plunge experience.
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Though the Covid 19 Global Pandemic upended our ability to offer in-person residency in Vermont, we have spearheaded additional Radical Imagination Projects. We have been incredibly busy during the pandemic, working remotely from our three homebases in NYC, Vermont and Norway. See this space for our latest updates.
︎︎Autumn
1. We continue our deep collaboration with the Northeast Farmer’s of Color Landtrust on the Every Town Project. The primary goal of this project is to place at least one parcel of land in every town in Vermont permanently in trust for stewardship and access for Black, Indigenous, and all People of Color (BIPOC).
2. We have held a weeklong strategic planning meeting in Oslo, Norway to plan future quarters of work. Please reach out if you’re interested in a collaboration.
3. Our first Every Town / Radical Imagination Land Aquistion will close on December 1st, 2022. The land we are acquiring houses a space that we shall use as a community center. The building will serve as a community center and gathering space for events and activities including skill shares, youth programming, concerts and performances.
We intend to have the lower level kitchen certified for commercial use so that local farmers and food businesses can use the space to create value added products. Additionally, the space can function as a classroom for teaching fermentation, food preservation, youth empowerment through cooking and food sovereignty programming.
In collaboration with Just Construction -- a group of volunteer carpenters that offer their time to build infrastructure for BIPOC land projects -- we will host building workshops and trainings for all skill levels with a focus on groups traditionally left out of building and construction spaces.
Through the creation of the Liberation Library within the building we will serve community members through book, tool and art supply loans centered around the uniting theme of anti-oppression. The Library will offer space for book groups with the aim of supporting the Every Town Neighbors Network, a statewide mutual aid group of allied community members focused on creating safe space and anti-racist communities.