Date and Time
- Thursday, Mar 19, 2026 6pm - 7:45pm
Location
Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105
Details
Join us in celebration of the publication of Heartbreak and Other Geographies, a thoughtfully curated selection of texts by preeminent black feminist scholar Katherine McKittrick spanning over twenty years. Edited by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne, this collection highlights McKittrick’s enduring commitment to ideas around radical placemaking and the creative articulations of and within the black diaspora. McKittrick’s work is marked by a recurring engagement with anticolonialism, practices of liberation, and radical methodologies of black cultural production. Through discussions of figures such as Toni Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Édouard Glissant, Paul Gilroy, Nina Simone, and Sylvia Wynter, the writing in Heartbreak and Other Geographies spans the author’s investigations into scientific method, liberal modernity, the cycles that perpetuate racial violence, and the poetics and sonics of black livingness. Innovative in both form and content, this wide-ranging volume invites us to rethink the boundaries between disciplines and the ways that scholarship can embody a more collaborative form of worldmaking.
