Black Ecologies Earthday Event with Michaela Harrison & Mia C. White

ZOOM Apr 29, 2022 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Michaela Harrison’s ocean-song-healing work with the whales situates the ocean as a site of Black artistic production, healing, and possibility for living in an age of climate grief and ongoing racial oppression. Her whale-song / whale whispering can be understood in the tradition of reclamation and research-as-lived-experience. It is Black metaphysical space-making through expressive culture and historical witness/resistance, offering epistemologies for a community-environment relation which is so necessary for our collective climate futures.

If possible, we ask participants to please take a few moments to look at her website’s whale-whispering page prior to our gathering: https://www.michaelaharrison.org/whale-whispering

or

Listen to her recent interview with adrienne maree brown on the *Emergent Strategy Podcast*: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-whales-tell-us-with-michaela-harrison/id1553479340?i=1000557591829

TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT: tinyurl.com/blackwhalesong

If you'd like to read a little bit about BLACK ECOLOGIES:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2514848618770363

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/experimentalethnography/2020/11/04/black-ecologies/

https://academic.oup.com/isle/pages/black-ecologies

If you have any COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, OR THOUGHTS you would like to pose to Michaela or Mia, please share them below. Professor Mia White can also be reached at miawhite@newschool.edu

TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT: tinyurl.com/blackwhalesong