I. AM. WRITNG.

wocsurvivalkit:

“To McKittrick, black matters are spatial patterns. Black women have always had a meaningful relationship with geography, she says. She places these women firmly as subjects in these cartographies of struggle rather than relegated to objects as much of human geography has done throughout history. Black women’s geographies are bound up with practices of spatial domination. As she writes: the landscape, our surroundings and everyday spaces, the vessels of human violence, so often disguise these important black geographies … geography’s discursive attachment to stasis and physicality, the idea that space ‘just is’ and that space and place are merely containers for human complexities and social relations, is terribly seductive: that which just is not only anchors our selfhood and feet to the ground, it seemingly calibrates and normalizes where, and therefore who, we are. (xi)”