As a noun, Convergence simultaneously describes the group of students & community members who together determine the content of this project by a variety of research & educational approaches, representing a movement between academic work & community activism. In its form as verb, Convergence is also a taking on of injustice: where students’ & community organizers’ approaches & ideas encounter political & social problems, where research converges on the powerful territory of academia to insist on alternatives. Now in its 7th edition, this year’s Convergence features pieces grounded in struggles for self-determination in Palestine, for prison abolition, & against police violence & anti-black racism, while interrogating what sustains our movements: how do we care for one another, what power relations exist within organizing, who carries out the emotional labour in our spaces and how is this rendered invisible? In also examines how music, art, & poetry fuel our organizing & resistance.
