Dive into topics ranging from Right Relationship with the Earth, Remapping, cartography, and Articles exploring the granular to the grandiose.
Ancestral Containers: How Black Communities Built Urban Sanctuaries
Part 2 of "Sacred Routes and Ancestral Containers"
The Counter-Cartographer Who Mapped Hope: Louise E. Jefferson's Revolutionary Vision
Re-membering the story of a pioneering Black American mapmaker
Sacred Routes: Mapping Spiritual Safety During the Great Migration
Discover the portable spiritual technologies that Black families carried during the Great Migration - mojo bags, ancestral protection systems, and sacred routes that mapped spiritual safety.
The Cartography of Sound: Black Musical Traditions as Spatial Technologies
How Black communities transformed sound into sophisticated navigation systems when conventional maps were forbidden
Rooted Resistance
This article explores how Black communities during enslavement created sophisticated garden-based cartographic systems that encoded freedom routes, medicinal knowledge, and temporal sovereignty through strategic plant placement, transforming subsistence gardening into revolutionary navigation technology hidden in plain sight.
Charting Freedom: Black Counter-Cartography Under Constraint
Mapping Liberation When Maps Were Forbidden