This Juneteenth 2022, we are showcasing the continued significance of Black Spaces, Places, and Faces in cultivating community, spurring political action and coalition building, and creating counter-narratives and joy.
On global and local scales, the interconnectedness of our collective injustices is keenly felt. How intimate or distant we are to these injustices is determined by how we are positioned in relation to one another, our place, and how we take and create space. Linking social and spatial injustices, Bryan C. Lee of the multidisciplinary non-profit organization, Colloqate Design, writes, “For nearly every injustice in the world, there’s an architecture that sustains it.” With doom scrolling as a seemingly unavoidable anathema of our times, this interconnectedness enables these intimate forms: of injustice, of violence, of resistance, and of hope, possibility and justice.
