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URL:https://communityliteraciescollaboratory.com/events/summer-2025-possib
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SUMMARY:Summer 2025 Possibilities Hub: How Not to Peddle Trauma Porn: Queer
  Black Imagination in Impossible Times
DESCRIPTION:The Community Literacies Collaboratory presents\nSummer 2025 Po
 ssibilites Hub:\nHow Not to Peddle Trauma Porn: Queer Black Imagination in
  Impossible Times\nWhen: Wednesdays\, June 9 - July 21\; Recess June 30th\
 n\nTimes: 5 - 7pm CST/ 6 - 8pm EST\n\nWhere: Virtual\n\nCost: Free and Ope
 n to the Public\nPeople impacted by the carceral system develop multiliter
 acy by necessity - navigating legal documents\, probation requirements\, a
 nd complex bureaucratic systems. Their stories are crucial for movement bu
 ilding and securing resources. However\, when these narratives are primari
 ly used to gain funding and support\, they risk flattening complex experie
 nces into "trauma porn\," where suffering becomes currency and storyteller
 s lose agency over their narratives. Trauma porn represents a kind of carc
 eral logic that needs to be undone.\n\nOther worlds are possible\, but rea
 ching them requires engaging our full capacity for embodied experience and
  imagination. This seminar explores abolitionist literacy practices rooted
  in Black Queer Theory\, community literacies\, and somatic practice. Over
  six weeks\, we will explore literacies that can expand our collective pow
 er to resist state violence and imagine liberatory alternatives.\n\nThe se
 minar engages practitioners\, formerly incarcerated people\, organizationa
 l leaders\, and academics to develop ethical storytelling methods that cen
 ter impacted communities' experiences and knowledge.\n\nKey questions incl
 ude: How can untold stories emerge when those most impacted drive the narr
 ative? How might embodied storytelling promote community wellbeing? What r
 ole can speculative fiction and imagination play in collective dreaming? H
 ow do we cultivate care in times of messy transformation?\nMeet Your Facil
 iator\n\nWolf\, Director of Narrative Change at Community Spring\nWolf\, c
 urrently the Director of Narrative Change at Community Spring in Gainesvil
 le\, Florida\, holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Writing Studies and has a decad
 e of experience in community-engaged scholarship and practice\, working at
  the intersection of community literacies\, prison abolition\, and communi
 ty wellbeing. Their pronouns are they/she.\n\nCopies of the books will be 
 provided to participants.\n\nApplications close May 9th\n\nTo register\, v
 isit here
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