a poethics of Blackness would announce a whole range of possibilities for knowing, doing and existing
- Denise Ferreira da Silva
The Collaboratory for Black Legal Poethics brings together a collective of student researchers and engages community members to reflect on, theorize, and share stories about prefiguring Black liberation - and thus liberation for everyone - by conceptualizing law anew
The two current themes of the project are Black internationalism as self-defence, and the meanings and possibilities of reparatory justice for the afterlives of slavery and colonialism
The project is housed at the McGill Faculty of Law