PACING

<p>Themes of movement, memory, histories, and archives animate this eleventh SDUK broadsheet, <strong>PACING</strong>. In the first issue of 2022, contributors amplify and expand on themes found throughout Blackwood programs here engaging the pace of reading and writing that is unique to publishing.</p> <p>Through a range of forms, contributors to this issue speculate on publications, archives, and file repositories as means for building collective memory. Given the often violent and colonial origins of these forms, <strong>how are Black culture workers navigating archives and collections?</strong> In a roundtable discussion, Cleopatria Peterson and Adwoa Afful discuss how the respective print and digital platforms they have founded aim to counter persistent erasures of Black cultural production. The <em>Iyapo Repository</em>, founded by Salome Asega and Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde, engages a similar practice: the artists work with participants to build an experimental counter-archive of Black futures. <em>Iyapo Repository</em>’s methods are expounded on in an essay by Okunseinde, which includes a new call to contribute.</p> <p>The ongoing pandemic has energized activist movements and re-enlivened stagnant or dormant organizing practices. In light of rising, broad-scale movement-building in the GTHA and throughout North America, <strong>how are activist histories being reenacted, revived, and protected?</strong> Mostafa Henaway reflects on the recent re-emergence of unionization in the unlikeliest of workplaces—such as Amazon and Dollarama. He shows how labour organizers have drawn on histories of struggle to adapt to new conditions of precarity. Maandeeq Mohamed examines parallel movements in eviction defense, tenant rights, and Indigenous land defense; in her telling, common tactics are shared through past and present movements that intervene in capitalism’s relentless pace…</p>