Author and multidisciplinary artist Rasheedah Phillips will share their radical new treatise on time, Dismantling the Master's Clock. For this virtual event, Rasheedah will be joined in conversation by Danielle Purifoy.

In Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time, Phillips unfolds the history of time and its legacy of racial oppression, from colonial exploration and the plantation system to the establishment of Daylight Savings. Yet Black communities have long subverted space-time through such tools of resistance as Juneteenth, tenant organizing, ritual, and time travel. What could Black liberation look like if the past were as changeable as the future?

Drawing on philosophy, archival research, quantum physics, and Phillips's own art practice and work on housing policy, Dismantling the Master's Clock expands the horizons of what can be imagined and, ultimately, achieved.

Rasheedah Phillips is a queer housing advocate, lawyer, parent, and interdisciplinary artist working through a Black futurist lens. Phillips is the founder of the AfroFuturist Affair, founding member of the Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, and co-creator of the art duo Black Quantum Futurism. Phillips' work has been featured in the New York Times, The Wire, New York Magazine, Boston Review, Hyperallergic, and e-flux.

Danielle Purifoy, JD, Ph.D, is an assistant professor of Geography and Environment at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also serves as a faculty project lead for the UNC Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic. Danielle's research intersects Geography, Law, Environmental Studies, and Black Studies to learn about Black placemaking practices from town formation to ecological stewardship. She is the former Race and Place editor of Scalawag, a media organization devoted to Southern storytelling, journalism, and the arts. You can find her work in Society and Space, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Inside Higher Ed, Environmental Sociology, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Oxford American, and Southern Cultures, among other publications.