This collection began like many things do, with conversations. These conversations over coffee, on walks, in between familial crises, on breaks in workshops, and over zoom calls explored how to cultivate practices of  imagining beyond white supremacy culture and colonialism and ways to breathe life into radical hope and possibility. What emerged was an excitement to share stories, poems, fairy tales, incantations and images collected here in a small sampling of imagination practices. 

Whiteness and white body supremacy culture are products of colonialism and empire. They are an invention of hierarchies of identity, worth and belonging reproduced over centuries of brutality and oppression. Whiteness and white body supremacy have been refined and reinvented in response to relentless refusal and resistance. 

One of the dangerous and potent poisons of oppression and power-over is that they operate by appearing natural and normal, by becoming dominant culture. 

Resistance is not just about refusing and contesting current institutional and structural oppressions, which must be supported in every way possible, but also about imagining beyond current cultural conditions into collective liberatory cultural possibilities.  

his series is an invitation to imagine and practice dismantling something designed to be persistently and pervasively invisible, develop muscles to conjure radical future possibilities while also not preemptively sabotaging these possibilities with projections.

There are many brilliant, bold and beautiful abolitionist imagination practices, we offer one small story-ripple in the various currents of resistance.

Stories and myths drop bodies into present oriented experiences of past and future. This kind of presence, of being in and with while staying here and now, opens up wild spaces for transformation, healing and new kinds of possibilities. This is why story and myth are the heartbeat, pulse, breath in many healing practices

Songs, lyrics, melodies are alive, are the tissues and muscles of culture, they have the power to transform emotive experiences, perceptions, bodies, nervous systems and can alter relationships to space and time, past, present, and future.

Poems can make visible the “invisible”, challenge the “non-existent”. Poetry offers ways to imagine and manifest shape shifts inside our bodies, in our relationships, in ecosystems and environments.

This series hopes to support fierce anti-racist, ecologically abolitionist cultural imaginations and revolutionary realities that may have yet to come and also need to be practiced here and now.

Fairy tales entertain while imparting moral lessons that listeners metabolize, internalize, and embody. Fairy tales are, in other words, culture builders. They have been used to uphold, normalize and mainstream christianity, heterosexuality, gender binaries, capitalism, colonialism, white supremacy, why not remember and create anti-racist, anti-fascist and beyond coloniality/modernity culture jamming through fairy tales and storytelling?

Why not?

This question was the seed scattered in various conversations that sprouted into this collection. Dismantling, composting and uprooting deeply entrenched tendrils of white body supremacy culture takes rigorous tending and the restoration and cultivation of hearty and fertile abolitionist rhizomes.

Words are seeds. Words are spells.

We hope these seed spells rewild dreams, imaginations and possibilities.