Stono Not-Jim Crow

The Spirit of Revolution, Freedom and Liberation vs The Performance of Compliance, Conformity and Subjugation Join in an evening of spirited liberation discourse with film, participatory music and Indigenous knowledge-building A countervailing narrative to plantation oligarchy, sentimentalism and terror is a bell which must be rung. As performed inequalities dance, sing, sculpt and narrate expected daily power flows, they reproduce prestige architectures of control. Transformation requires a counter force no less than the segregationist, colonial and Jim Crow mythologies originally used to cement white supremacist order—and the peaceful violence of status quo bully heritage.