FUTURE/PRESENT brings together a vast collection of writers, artists, activists, and academics working at the forefront of today’s most pressing struggles for cultural equity and racial justice in a demographically changing America. The volume builds upon five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism by centering people of color who are leading innovation at the nexus of arts production, community benefit, and social change. FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, poetry, and reflections on community practice. Throughout, contributors examine issues of placekeeping and belonging, migration and diasporas, the carceral state, renegotiating relationships with land, ancestral knowledge as radical futurity, and shifting paradigms of inequity. Foregrounding the powerful resilience of communities of color, FUTURE/PRESENT advances the role of artists as first responders to injustices, creative stewards in the cohesion and health of communities, and innovative strategists for equity. Selected contributors. Dahlak Brathwaite, adrienne maree brown, Jeff Chang, Tameca Cole, Ofelia Esparza, Antoine Hunter, Nobuko Miyamoto, Wendy Red Star, Spel, Jose Antonio Vargas, Carrie Mae Weems, Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu

Table of Contents:
Introduction / Roberta Uno  1 The Call / Jeff Chang  17 vestibular mantra (or radical virtuosities for a brave new dance) / taisha paggett  29 Part 1. Cultural Presence: Placekeeping and Belonging Introduction / Daniela Alvarez  35 Aqui Estoy / Jose Ramirez  40 Beauty, Justice, and the Ritual of Performance / Patricia Berne & Nomy Lamm  42 An Accumulation of Things That Refuse to Be Discarded / Kiyan Williams  52 Counting Coup on the Compartmentalization of Indigenous-Made Rap Music / Talon Bazille Ducheneaux  54 Cultural Resiliency in the Face of Crisis: Learning from New Orleans / Carol Bebelle and Carol Zou  63 Collectively Directing the Current / Halima Afi Cassells  68 The New Eagle Creek Saloon / Sadie Barnette  74 Notes from Technotopia 3.0: On the “Creative City” Gone Wrong-An Antigentrification Philosophical Tantrum, 2012–2016 / Guillermo GÓmez-PeÑa  76 “Building Temples for Tomorrow”: Cultural Workers as Construction Crews / Alesia Montgomery 87 Invasive Species / Aaron McIntosh  94 Sunny and 150 Years of Placekeeping in Little Tokyo / Scott Oshima  96 Local Fruit Still Life / Daniel Andres Alcazar 102 Stage One: Establishing Community / Garrett McQueen 104 Red 40 / JazmÍn Urrea  108 More Noes from the Performance Essay Los Giros De La Siguinte/the turns of the Next / Devin Kenny  110 Part 2. Dismantling Borders, Building Bridges: Migration and Diasporas Introduction / Sarah Sophia Yanni  123 Mano Poderosa / Rosalie LÓpez  128 A Cosmos of Dis/Joints / Vinhay Keo  130 Cross-Border Citizens / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Foreman  136 Indian Alley, Where Art Is Healing / Pamela J. Peters  146 Vessels: A Conversation / Chanice Holmes, Mykia Jovan, Rebecca Mwase, and Mahalia AbÉo Tibbs  151 Fence / Belise Nishimwe  158 A Touch of Otherness / Hayv Kahraman  160 Harmattan Haze / Njikeka Akunyili Crosby  166 Who Is the #EmergingUS? / Jose Antonio Vargas  168 Justice and Equity: We’re Coming for It All / Christine Her  171 building bricks for communal healing / Silvi NaÇi  176 We Never Needed Documents to Thrive / Yosimar Reyes  178 prop•er / Kassandra L. Khalil  182 Alongside: On Chinese Students in the United States and the Fight for Black Lives / Evelyn Hang Yin  185 Love Spirals: Notes on Brown Feelings / J Molina-Garcia  191 Part 3. Creating a World without Prisons: Culture and the Carceral State Introduction / Kassandra L. Khalil  205 To Create in Prison / Spel  211 A Measure of Joy / Samara Gaev and Jarvis Jay Masters  214 There Is No Abolition or Liberation without Disability Justice / Lydia X. Z. Brown  224 HOGAR / Aydinaneth Ortiz  230 I Remember / Mark MenjÍvar  232 Coming Home / Dustina Gill  237 Singing Our Way to Abolition / Mary Hooks  241 Standing in the Gap: Music as First Responder / Duane Robert Garcia and Vijay Gupta  245 Locked in a Dark Calm / Tameca Cole  250 As Crazy as the World Is, I Do Believe / Kondani Fidel with images by Devin Allen  252 Jumpsuit Projects / Sherrill Roland  260 The Bonds of Aloha: Connecting to Culture Can Free Us / Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kula  262 The Nail That Sticks Out / Tani Ikeda  268 Art Is a Trojan Horse: Reclaiming Our Narratives / Faith Bartley, Courtney Bowles, and Mark Strandquist  272 Try/Step/Trip (Excerpt) / Dahlak Brathwaite  281 The Evanesced Series (2016–) / Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle  290 Part 4. Embodied Cartographies: Renegotiating Relationships with Land Introduction / Elizabeth M. Webb  295 Kiksuya / Michael Two Bulls  300 American Doesn’t Exist / Lyla June  302 Between the Real and the Imagined: A Conversation with Lyla June and Tanaya Winder / Lyla June and Tanaya Winder  304 Sopa de OstiÓn / Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya  310 Island Earth: Water, Wayfinding, and the Currents That Connect Us / Nāʻāleu Anthony and Haunani Kane 312 ACCESS DENIED: Creating New Spatial Understandings / Jaklin Romine  321 Essential Economy / Jia Lok Pratt  326 Earth Mama II / Favianna Rodriguez  332 We Are Proud of This Land / Carlton Turner  334 Mauka House / Kapena Alapaʻi  340 Withholding an Image: Disciplinary Disobedience and Reciprocity in the Field / Ashley Hunt  343 Thinking through Fragments: Speculative Archives, Contested Histories, and a Tale of the Palestine Archaeological Museum / Dareen Hussein  354 Secrets That the Wind Carries Away / Morel Doucet  359 Ohiŋniyaŋ ded wati kte: This Place Will Always Be Home / Angela Two Stars  364 Ballers / Mel D. Cole  368 Part 5. Living Our Legacy: Ancestral Knowledge as Radical Futurity Introduction / Kapena Alapaʻi  373 These Roots Run Deep / Dyani White Hawk  378 The Future Is Ancient / Allison Akootchook Warden  380 Being in Oneness: Conversations with Nobuko Miyamoto, Kamau Ayubbi, and Asiya Ayubbi / Nobuko Miyamoto, Asiya Amatullah Ayubbi, and Imam Kamau Ayubbi  384 1619 / Douglas Kearney  396 Encircling the Circle: Blood Memory and Making the Village-a Conversation between Cleo Parker Robinson and Malik Robinson / Cleo Parker Robinson and Malik Robinson  400 Culture and Tradition: A Monument to Our Resilience / Ofelia Esparza  408 EspaÑol / Yanina Chicas  410 ApsÁalooke Feminist #4 / Wendy Red Star  412 Mother’s Words and Grandmother’s Thoughts: Living the Right Way (a Conversation) / Maribel Alvarez and Ofelia Zepeda  414 The AIM Song / Elisa Harkins  421 Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Reflections of Futurity / Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine  426 For Paradise / Elizabeth M. Webb  430 What Is the New Basket That We’re Going to Weave? / Lori Lea Pourier  436 I ka wā ma mua, i ka wā ma hope: Ōiwi Orientations toward a Radical Futurity / Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio and Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio  442 The Art of Peer Pressure: Black Fire UVA! / Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold  450 Part 6. Currents Beyond: Artists Shifting Paradigms of Inequity Introduction / Genevieve Fowler  461 Bang Bang / Natalie Ball  466 The Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice / Michele Kumi Baer, Jeff Chang, MarÍa LÓpez De LeÓn, Tara Dorabji, Kassandra L. Khalil, Lori Pourier, Favianna Rodriguez, Nayantara Sen, Carlton Turner, Roberta Uno, and Elizabeth M. Webb  468 We Begin by Listening / Jeanette Lee  475 EMERGENYC: An Artistic Home for Emerging Artists / MarlÈne RamÍrez-Cancio  482 Listening through Dance / Antoine Hunter  491 Scenes and Takes / Carrie Mae Weems  495 Feminist Coalition and Queer Movements across Time: A Conversation between Alok Vaid-Menon and Urvashi Vaid / Alok Vaid-Menon and Urvashi Vaid  504 What Would Upski Think? / Devin Kenny  516 all organizing is science fiction / adrienne maree brown  519 Rebirth Garments / Sky Cubacub  522 A Call to Action / Eleanor Savage  524 SOVEREIGN / X  538 Flexing Hope Is a Practice / Ananya Chatterjea  540 Azadi / Arshia Fatima Haq  546 Afterword / Daniela Alvarez and Elizabeth M. Webb  549 emergence / Sarah Sophia Yanni  551 Acknowledgments  553