SHOPPING CART
The Refuge Series is an ongoing search for queer, black sanctuary in space inaugurated by cello performance, cuisine, and community action. This series explores ideas of radical softness; queer black joy; (trans)femininity; revolution; ancestral rage; loneliness; decolonizing notions of beauty; the importance of play; and gentle intimacy. They are portable, yet site-specific responses freeing one from and within a constant feeling of erotic placelessness, being in love but invisible, that I feel is often imposed upon black queer people. I want work that rages against the hypercommodification of the social media image, that takes time, conversation, effort and a certain kind of slowness; a work that creates community in spaces that were never meant for us.