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Our next The People’s Archive teach-in is next month! Join us on Tuesday, June 16 at 6:30 pm ET for We The People in partnership with @blis_collective.

Inspired by Kinfolk Tech’s AR monument to Philadelphia’s No Arena Movement—when communities in Chinatown, Black North Philadelphia, and across the city organized in solidarity to defeat a proposed 76ers arena that would have displaced thousands. The fight wasn’t just about stopping one development; it was about Asian, Black, Latinx, and working-class white Philadelphians recognizing that gentrification, displacement, and corporate extraction are interlocking systems of oppression that require interlocking resistance.

This session will feature panelists Brea Baker (@FreckledWhileBlack), Claire Maracle, and Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery (@ajescoffery) discussing how collective power emerges when communities refuse to be pitted against each other.

📅 Tuesday, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Our next The People’s Archive teach-in is next month! Join us on Tuesday, June 16 at 6:30 pm ET for We The People in partnership with @blis_collective.

Inspired by Kinfolk Tech’s AR monument to Philadelphia’s No Arena Movement—when communities in Chinatown, Black North Philadelphia, and across the city organized in solidarity to defeat a proposed 76ers arena that would have displaced thousands. The fight wasn’t just about stopping one development; it was about Asian, Black, Latinx, and working-class white Philadelphians recognizing that gentrification, displacement, and corporate extraction are interlocking systems of oppression that require interlocking resistance.

This session will feature panelists Brea Baker (@FreckledWhileBlack), Claire Maracle, and Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery (@ajescoffery) discussing how collective power emerges when communities refuse to be pitted against each other.

📅 Tuesday, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Our next The People’s Archive teach-in is next month! Join us on Tuesday, June 16 at 6:30 pm ET for We The People in partnership with @blis_collective.

Inspired by Kinfolk Tech’s AR monument to Philadelphia’s No Arena Movement—when communities in Chinatown, Black North Philadelphia, and across the city organized in solidarity to defeat a proposed 76ers arena that would have displaced thousands. The fight wasn’t just about stopping one development; it was about Asian, Black, Latinx, and working-class white Philadelphians recognizing that gentrification, displacement, and corporate extraction are interlocking systems of oppression that require interlocking resistance.

This session will feature panelists Brea Baker (@FreckledWhileBlack), Claire Maracle, and Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery (@ajescoffery) discussing how collective power emerges when communities refuse to be pitted against each other.

📅 Tuesday, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Our next The People’s Archive teach-in is next month! Join us on Tuesday, June 16 at 6:30 pm ET for We The People in partnership with @blis_collective.

Inspired by Kinfolk Tech’s AR monument to Philadelphia’s No Arena Movement—when communities in Chinatown, Black North Philadelphia, and across the city organized in solidarity to defeat a proposed 76ers arena that would have displaced thousands. The fight wasn’t just about stopping one development; it was about Asian, Black, Latinx, and working-class white Philadelphians recognizing that gentrification, displacement, and corporate extraction are interlocking systems of oppression that require interlocking resistance.

This session will feature panelists Brea Baker (@FreckledWhileBlack), Claire Maracle, and Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery (@ajescoffery) discussing how collective power emerges when communities refuse to be pitted against each other.

📅 Tuesday, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

YOU’RE INVITED

🎉 Monument Launch Party
🗓️ Friday May 29
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop

The Clemente and Kinfolk Tech are excited to announce the Jackson Heights, Queens edition of Historias in Motion, featuring “Dome Cartographies,” a new AR monument by artist Natalia Nakazawa paired with historical contributions from the Queens Memory Project. This signature series engages audiences with historically important Latinx neighborhoods around New York City, building community memory through artist-storyteller pairings, walking tours, limited-edition zines, and commissioned AR monuments that offer new possibilities for memorialization.

Join us at 5 pm on Friday, May 29, at the World’s Borough Bookshop to celebrate the monument launch music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

Link in bio to RSVP

YOU’RE INVITED

🎉 Monument Launch Party
🗓️ Friday May 29
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop

The Clemente and Kinfolk Tech are excited to announce the Jackson Heights, Queens edition of Historias in Motion, featuring “Dome Cartographies,” a new AR monument by artist Natalia Nakazawa paired with historical contributions from the Queens Memory Project. This signature series engages audiences with historically important Latinx neighborhoods around New York City, building community memory through artist-storyteller pairings, walking tours, limited-edition zines, and commissioned AR monuments that offer new possibilities for memorialization.

Join us at 5 pm on Friday, May 29, at the World’s Borough Bookshop to celebrate the monument launch music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

Link in bio to RSVP

YOU’RE INVITED

🎉 Monument Launch Party
🗓️ Friday May 29
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop

The Clemente and Kinfolk Tech are excited to announce the Jackson Heights, Queens edition of Historias in Motion, featuring “Dome Cartographies,” a new AR monument by artist Natalia Nakazawa paired with historical contributions from the Queens Memory Project. This signature series engages audiences with historically important Latinx neighborhoods around New York City, building community memory through artist-storyteller pairings, walking tours, limited-edition zines, and commissioned AR monuments that offer new possibilities for memorialization.

Join us at 5 pm on Friday, May 29, at the World’s Borough Bookshop to celebrate the monument launch music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

Link in bio to RSVP

Archives aren’t just for museums, libraries, and government buildings.

They live in our homes, our phones, and the everyday moments that shape our lives, and your phone already holds the foundations of a personal archive.

Photos, videos, texts, voice notes, voicemails, etc., all hold memories that connect us to our families, our communities, and our histories.

In the first episode of History Starts at Home, we’re starting with the basics: What is an archive, and how can you start building one today? Because preserving our stories helps ensure a richer, more expansive history for the future.

When you’re ready to get started use these 3 simple steps:

1️⃣ Make a short list of memories you want to archive
2️⃣ Create a folder on your phone or cloud storage called “Memory Archive”
3️⃣ Start adding photos and videos from the moments that matter to you to this folder

#archiving #archives #digitalarchives #familyarchives #memories

Our next teach-in “We The People”, is Tuesday June 16 and joining our panel for this session is professor, researcher, and author Dr. Aymar Jean “AJ” Escoffery (@ajescoffery).

💻 The People’s Archive: We The People
📅 Tuesay, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Dr. Aymar Jean “AJ” Escoffery is the Margaret Walker Professor of Communication Studies and Founder of the Media and Data Equity (MADE) Lab at Northwestern University, Faculty Director of the MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises, and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center. He is the author of Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television (NYU Press, 2018), Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal our Culture (MIT Press, 2025), and The Cookout: A Guide to AI: Ancestral Intelligence (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025). He is the co-author of The Media Reparations Manifesto (Polity, forthcoming) and Beyond the Screen: A Decade of Unfiltered Storytelling (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025), which chronicles 10 years of the streaming platform OTV | Open Television, which he co-founded. His research & development has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, MacArthur Foundation, and Wallace Foundation, among others.

Our next teach-in “We The People”, is Tuesday June 16 and joining our panel for this session is professor, researcher, and author Dr. Aymar Jean “AJ” Escoffery (@ajescoffery).

💻 The People’s Archive: We The People
📅 Tuesay, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Dr. Aymar Jean “AJ” Escoffery is the Margaret Walker Professor of Communication Studies and Founder of the Media and Data Equity (MADE) Lab at Northwestern University, Faculty Director of the MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises, and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center. He is the author of Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television (NYU Press, 2018), Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal our Culture (MIT Press, 2025), and The Cookout: A Guide to AI: Ancestral Intelligence (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025). He is the co-author of The Media Reparations Manifesto (Polity, forthcoming) and Beyond the Screen: A Decade of Unfiltered Storytelling (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025), which chronicles 10 years of the streaming platform OTV | Open Television, which he co-founded. His research & development has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, MacArthur Foundation, and Wallace Foundation, among others.

Our next teach-in “We The People”, is Tuesday June 16 and joining our panel for this session is professor, researcher, and author Dr. Aymar Jean “AJ” Escoffery (@ajescoffery).

💻 The People’s Archive: We The People
📅 Tuesay, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Dr. Aymar Jean “AJ” Escoffery is the Margaret Walker Professor of Communication Studies and Founder of the Media and Data Equity (MADE) Lab at Northwestern University, Faculty Director of the MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises, and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center. He is the author of Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television (NYU Press, 2018), Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal our Culture (MIT Press, 2025), and The Cookout: A Guide to AI: Ancestral Intelligence (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025). He is the co-author of The Media Reparations Manifesto (Polity, forthcoming) and Beyond the Screen: A Decade of Unfiltered Storytelling (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025), which chronicles 10 years of the streaming platform OTV | Open Television, which he co-founded. His research & development has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, MacArthur Foundation, and Wallace Foundation, among others.

Our next teach-in “We The People”, is Tuesday June 16 and joining our panel for this session is professor, researcher, and author Dr. Aymar Jean “AJ” Escoffery (@ajescoffery).

💻 The People’s Archive: We The People
📅 Tuesay, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Dr. Aymar Jean “AJ” Escoffery is the Margaret Walker Professor of Communication Studies and Founder of the Media and Data Equity (MADE) Lab at Northwestern University, Faculty Director of the MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises, and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center. He is the author of Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television (NYU Press, 2018), Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal our Culture (MIT Press, 2025), and The Cookout: A Guide to AI: Ancestral Intelligence (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025). He is the co-author of The Media Reparations Manifesto (Polity, forthcoming) and Beyond the Screen: A Decade of Unfiltered Storytelling (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025), which chronicles 10 years of the streaming platform OTV | Open Television, which he co-founded. His research & development has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, MacArthur Foundation, and Wallace Foundation, among others.

Powerful words from Roosevelt “Rosie” Douglas, Dominica native, human rights activist, and key figure in Canada’s 1960’s Black liberation movement.

Learn your history.

See “TRUE NORTH” June 17 -23 at @ifccenter

Ticket link in bio 🔗

Our next teach-in, “We The People”, is Tuesday June 16 and joining our panel for this session is writer and activist, Brea Baker (@freckledwhileblack).

💻 The People’s Archive: We The People
📅 Tuesay, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Brea Baker is a writer and activist whose book, ROOTED: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, details her family’s experiences across the South and makes another case for reparations to include land distribution. ROOTED has been celebrated in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Apple Books, the New York Times, iHeart Radio’s The Breakfast Club, Harper’s BAZAAR, Ms. Magazine, and was honored as a BCALA 2024 Nonfiction Honor award winner. With a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, Brea believes deeply in political imagination and the need for nuanced storytelling that doubles as ancestral veneration.

She also regularly contributes reported op-eds and personal essays to ELLE and Refinery 29 Unbothered with other bylines in Harper’s BAZAAR, The Nation, Oprah Daily, THEM, Coveteur, The Progressive, Mission Magazine, Nonprofit Quarterly, and Inside Philanthropy. Brea is a collective member of BLIS (Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty) as well as the Highland Project, and is on the board of YWCA USA, The Gathering for Justice, and Black Farmers’ Market NC.

Our next teach-in, “We The People”, is Tuesday June 16 and joining our panel for this session is writer and activist, Brea Baker (@freckledwhileblack).

💻 The People’s Archive: We The People
📅 Tuesay, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Brea Baker is a writer and activist whose book, ROOTED: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, details her family’s experiences across the South and makes another case for reparations to include land distribution. ROOTED has been celebrated in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Apple Books, the New York Times, iHeart Radio’s The Breakfast Club, Harper’s BAZAAR, Ms. Magazine, and was honored as a BCALA 2024 Nonfiction Honor award winner. With a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, Brea believes deeply in political imagination and the need for nuanced storytelling that doubles as ancestral veneration.

She also regularly contributes reported op-eds and personal essays to ELLE and Refinery 29 Unbothered with other bylines in Harper’s BAZAAR, The Nation, Oprah Daily, THEM, Coveteur, The Progressive, Mission Magazine, Nonprofit Quarterly, and Inside Philanthropy. Brea is a collective member of BLIS (Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty) as well as the Highland Project, and is on the board of YWCA USA, The Gathering for Justice, and Black Farmers’ Market NC.

Our next teach-in, “We The People”, is Tuesday June 16 and joining our panel for this session is writer and activist, Brea Baker (@freckledwhileblack).

💻 The People’s Archive: We The People
📅 Tuesay, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Brea Baker is a writer and activist whose book, ROOTED: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, details her family’s experiences across the South and makes another case for reparations to include land distribution. ROOTED has been celebrated in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Apple Books, the New York Times, iHeart Radio’s The Breakfast Club, Harper’s BAZAAR, Ms. Magazine, and was honored as a BCALA 2024 Nonfiction Honor award winner. With a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, Brea believes deeply in political imagination and the need for nuanced storytelling that doubles as ancestral veneration.

She also regularly contributes reported op-eds and personal essays to ELLE and Refinery 29 Unbothered with other bylines in Harper’s BAZAAR, The Nation, Oprah Daily, THEM, Coveteur, The Progressive, Mission Magazine, Nonprofit Quarterly, and Inside Philanthropy. Brea is a collective member of BLIS (Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty) as well as the Highland Project, and is on the board of YWCA USA, The Gathering for Justice, and Black Farmers’ Market NC.

Our next teach-in, “We The People”, is Tuesday June 16 and joining our panel for this session is writer and activist, Brea Baker (@freckledwhileblack).

💻 The People’s Archive: We The People
📅 Tuesay, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Brea Baker is a writer and activist whose book, ROOTED: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, details her family’s experiences across the South and makes another case for reparations to include land distribution. ROOTED has been celebrated in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Apple Books, the New York Times, iHeart Radio’s The Breakfast Club, Harper’s BAZAAR, Ms. Magazine, and was honored as a BCALA 2024 Nonfiction Honor award winner. With a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, Brea believes deeply in political imagination and the need for nuanced storytelling that doubles as ancestral veneration.

She also regularly contributes reported op-eds and personal essays to ELLE and Refinery 29 Unbothered with other bylines in Harper’s BAZAAR, The Nation, Oprah Daily, THEM, Coveteur, The Progressive, Mission Magazine, Nonprofit Quarterly, and Inside Philanthropy. Brea is a collective member of BLIS (Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty) as well as the Highland Project, and is on the board of YWCA USA, The Gathering for Justice, and Black Farmers’ Market NC.

Where do we go to gather? Where do we go to tell stories?

Adrian Cepeda, owner of @theworldsboroughbookshop, reflects on his mission to steward a Latinx-owned community bookshop where stories by writers of color are uplifted, communities of color are seen in commerce, books, and cultural heritage, as well as what it means to be a member of the World’s Borough, and its most diverse neighborhood of Jackson Heights.

@theclemente and Kinfolk Tech are excited to partner with The World’s Borough Bookshop, and @queensmemory to present the augmented reality monument of Dome Cartographies, by @nakazawastudio.

Come celebrate the launch of this monument in an essential New York diasporic third space!

🎉 Dome Cartographies Monument Launch Event
📅 5–7 PM
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP for FREE

A preview of, and some history behind @nakazawastudio AR monument and sculpture “Dome Cartographies”

This monument extends on Nakazawa’s sculpture of the same name, from her recent installation at Socrates Sculpture Park. This monument is a dome that functions as a space for storytelling, gathering, and diasporic connection in the World’s Borough of Queens.

The sculptural dome takes its inspiration from the work of CHARAS, an education-focused group of former Puerto Rican gang members-turned-activists who challenged notions of who New York City was built for. In the 70s, they collaborated with architect Buckminster Fuller to create Geodesic domes as gathering spaces in the abandoned areas of the Lower East Side.

Nakazawa’s reinterpretation of the domes are now transported to Jackson Heights, a neighborhood where many of New York’s Latinx populations (Ecuadorian, Colombian, and more!) have made their homes. But this neighborhood is not just a core Latinx neighborhood, but is also a place where different diasporas meet and fuse. Thus, the dome serves as a counter-map to how we see the city. Instead of street names and numbers, we see stories and perseverance.

Join us at The World’s Borough Bookshop in Queens to celebrate the monument launch with music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

🎉 Dome Cartographies Monument Launch Event
📅 5–7 PM
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP

A preview of, and some history behind @nakazawastudio AR monument and sculpture “Dome Cartographies”

This monument extends on Nakazawa’s sculpture of the same name, from her recent installation at Socrates Sculpture Park. This monument is a dome that functions as a space for storytelling, gathering, and diasporic connection in the World’s Borough of Queens.

The sculptural dome takes its inspiration from the work of CHARAS, an education-focused group of former Puerto Rican gang members-turned-activists who challenged notions of who New York City was built for. In the 70s, they collaborated with architect Buckminster Fuller to create Geodesic domes as gathering spaces in the abandoned areas of the Lower East Side.

Nakazawa’s reinterpretation of the domes are now transported to Jackson Heights, a neighborhood where many of New York’s Latinx populations (Ecuadorian, Colombian, and more!) have made their homes. But this neighborhood is not just a core Latinx neighborhood, but is also a place where different diasporas meet and fuse. Thus, the dome serves as a counter-map to how we see the city. Instead of street names and numbers, we see stories and perseverance.

Join us at The World’s Borough Bookshop in Queens to celebrate the monument launch with music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

🎉 Dome Cartographies Monument Launch Event
📅 5–7 PM
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP

A preview of, and some history behind @nakazawastudio AR monument and sculpture “Dome Cartographies”

This monument extends on Nakazawa’s sculpture of the same name, from her recent installation at Socrates Sculpture Park. This monument is a dome that functions as a space for storytelling, gathering, and diasporic connection in the World’s Borough of Queens.

The sculptural dome takes its inspiration from the work of CHARAS, an education-focused group of former Puerto Rican gang members-turned-activists who challenged notions of who New York City was built for. In the 70s, they collaborated with architect Buckminster Fuller to create Geodesic domes as gathering spaces in the abandoned areas of the Lower East Side.

Nakazawa’s reinterpretation of the domes are now transported to Jackson Heights, a neighborhood where many of New York’s Latinx populations (Ecuadorian, Colombian, and more!) have made their homes. But this neighborhood is not just a core Latinx neighborhood, but is also a place where different diasporas meet and fuse. Thus, the dome serves as a counter-map to how we see the city. Instead of street names and numbers, we see stories and perseverance.

Join us at The World’s Borough Bookshop in Queens to celebrate the monument launch with music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

🎉 Dome Cartographies Monument Launch Event
📅 5–7 PM
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP

A preview of, and some history behind @nakazawastudio AR monument and sculpture “Dome Cartographies”

This monument extends on Nakazawa’s sculpture of the same name, from her recent installation at Socrates Sculpture Park. This monument is a dome that functions as a space for storytelling, gathering, and diasporic connection in the World’s Borough of Queens.

The sculptural dome takes its inspiration from the work of CHARAS, an education-focused group of former Puerto Rican gang members-turned-activists who challenged notions of who New York City was built for. In the 70s, they collaborated with architect Buckminster Fuller to create Geodesic domes as gathering spaces in the abandoned areas of the Lower East Side.

Nakazawa’s reinterpretation of the domes are now transported to Jackson Heights, a neighborhood where many of New York’s Latinx populations (Ecuadorian, Colombian, and more!) have made their homes. But this neighborhood is not just a core Latinx neighborhood, but is also a place where different diasporas meet and fuse. Thus, the dome serves as a counter-map to how we see the city. Instead of street names and numbers, we see stories and perseverance.

Join us at The World’s Borough Bookshop in Queens to celebrate the monument launch with music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

🎉 Dome Cartographies Monument Launch Event
📅 5–7 PM
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP

A preview of, and some history behind @nakazawastudio AR monument and sculpture “Dome Cartographies”

This monument extends on Nakazawa’s sculpture of the same name, from her recent installation at Socrates Sculpture Park. This monument is a dome that functions as a space for storytelling, gathering, and diasporic connection in the World’s Borough of Queens.

The sculptural dome takes its inspiration from the work of CHARAS, an education-focused group of former Puerto Rican gang members-turned-activists who challenged notions of who New York City was built for. In the 70s, they collaborated with architect Buckminster Fuller to create Geodesic domes as gathering spaces in the abandoned areas of the Lower East Side.

Nakazawa’s reinterpretation of the domes are now transported to Jackson Heights, a neighborhood where many of New York’s Latinx populations (Ecuadorian, Colombian, and more!) have made their homes. But this neighborhood is not just a core Latinx neighborhood, but is also a place where different diasporas meet and fuse. Thus, the dome serves as a counter-map to how we see the city. Instead of street names and numbers, we see stories and perseverance.

Join us at The World’s Borough Bookshop in Queens to celebrate the monument launch with music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

🎉 Dome Cartographies Monument Launch Event
📅 5–7 PM
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP

A preview of, and some history behind @nakazawastudio AR monument and sculpture “Dome Cartographies”

This monument extends on Nakazawa’s sculpture of the same name, from her recent installation at Socrates Sculpture Park. This monument is a dome that functions as a space for storytelling, gathering, and diasporic connection in the World’s Borough of Queens.

The sculptural dome takes its inspiration from the work of CHARAS, an education-focused group of former Puerto Rican gang members-turned-activists who challenged notions of who New York City was built for. In the 70s, they collaborated with architect Buckminster Fuller to create Geodesic domes as gathering spaces in the abandoned areas of the Lower East Side.

Nakazawa’s reinterpretation of the domes are now transported to Jackson Heights, a neighborhood where many of New York’s Latinx populations (Ecuadorian, Colombian, and more!) have made their homes. But this neighborhood is not just a core Latinx neighborhood, but is also a place where different diasporas meet and fuse. Thus, the dome serves as a counter-map to how we see the city. Instead of street names and numbers, we see stories and perseverance.

Join us at The World’s Borough Bookshop in Queens to celebrate the monument launch with music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

🎉 Dome Cartographies Monument Launch Event
📅 5–7 PM
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP

A preview of, and some history behind @nakazawastudio AR monument and sculpture “Dome Cartographies”

This monument extends on Nakazawa’s sculpture of the same name, from her recent installation at Socrates Sculpture Park. This monument is a dome that functions as a space for storytelling, gathering, and diasporic connection in the World’s Borough of Queens.

The sculptural dome takes its inspiration from the work of CHARAS, an education-focused group of former Puerto Rican gang members-turned-activists who challenged notions of who New York City was built for. In the 70s, they collaborated with architect Buckminster Fuller to create Geodesic domes as gathering spaces in the abandoned areas of the Lower East Side.

Nakazawa’s reinterpretation of the domes are now transported to Jackson Heights, a neighborhood where many of New York’s Latinx populations (Ecuadorian, Colombian, and more!) have made their homes. But this neighborhood is not just a core Latinx neighborhood, but is also a place where different diasporas meet and fuse. Thus, the dome serves as a counter-map to how we see the city. Instead of street names and numbers, we see stories and perseverance.

Join us at The World’s Borough Bookshop in Queens to celebrate the monument launch with music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

🎉 Dome Cartographies Monument Launch Event
📅 5–7 PM
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP

A preview of, and some history behind @nakazawastudio AR monument and sculpture “Dome Cartographies”

This monument extends on Nakazawa’s sculpture of the same name, from her recent installation at Socrates Sculpture Park. This monument is a dome that functions as a space for storytelling, gathering, and diasporic connection in the World’s Borough of Queens.

The sculptural dome takes its inspiration from the work of CHARAS, an education-focused group of former Puerto Rican gang members-turned-activists who challenged notions of who New York City was built for. In the 70s, they collaborated with architect Buckminster Fuller to create Geodesic domes as gathering spaces in the abandoned areas of the Lower East Side.

Nakazawa’s reinterpretation of the domes are now transported to Jackson Heights, a neighborhood where many of New York’s Latinx populations (Ecuadorian, Colombian, and more!) have made their homes. But this neighborhood is not just a core Latinx neighborhood, but is also a place where different diasporas meet and fuse. Thus, the dome serves as a counter-map to how we see the city. Instead of street names and numbers, we see stories and perseverance.

Join us at The World’s Borough Bookshop in Queens to celebrate the monument launch with music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

🎉 Dome Cartographies Monument Launch Event
📅 5–7 PM
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP

On June 20th, we invite you to come make history, and showcase our collective power. To show any and all forces of domination, that no matter how hard you try to erase our presence and our history, we will continue to reclaim all that was stolen from us.

Reclamation Day is our counter-commemoration to official 'America at 250th' celebrations, grounded in the histories of Indigenous and Black presence on this land, this is an opportunity for us to grow the movements for Reparations, Land Back, and economic justice.

Featuring over 40 artists, we'll showcase the art, music, and imagination that is shaping the next 250 years. Registration is now live.

Come as strangers, leave as kin, pull up to the reunion.

Who governs memory—and who gets to decide what lasts.

A look at @kinfolktech and the infrastructures shaping public memory, where technology, community, and storytelling intersect to build something more collective, more intentional, and more alive.

Words by @rena.okamoto
Photography by Gustavo Lopes, Cynthia Bryan, Vanessa Lynn

Full article available in Issue 003.

Who governs memory—and who gets to decide what lasts.

A look at @kinfolktech and the infrastructures shaping public memory, where technology, community, and storytelling intersect to build something more collective, more intentional, and more alive.

Words by @rena.okamoto
Photography by Gustavo Lopes, Cynthia Bryan, Vanessa Lynn

Full article available in Issue 003.

Who governs memory—and who gets to decide what lasts.

A look at @kinfolktech and the infrastructures shaping public memory, where technology, community, and storytelling intersect to build something more collective, more intentional, and more alive.

Words by @rena.okamoto
Photography by Gustavo Lopes, Cynthia Bryan, Vanessa Lynn

Full article available in Issue 003.

Who governs memory—and who gets to decide what lasts.

A look at @kinfolktech and the infrastructures shaping public memory, where technology, community, and storytelling intersect to build something more collective, more intentional, and more alive.

Words by @rena.okamoto
Photography by Gustavo Lopes, Cynthia Bryan, Vanessa Lynn

Full article available in Issue 003.

Who governs memory—and who gets to decide what lasts.

A look at @kinfolktech and the infrastructures shaping public memory, where technology, community, and storytelling intersect to build something more collective, more intentional, and more alive.

Words by @rena.okamoto
Photography by Gustavo Lopes, Cynthia Bryan, Vanessa Lynn

Full article available in Issue 003.

Who governs memory—and who gets to decide what lasts.

A look at @kinfolktech and the infrastructures shaping public memory, where technology, community, and storytelling intersect to build something more collective, more intentional, and more alive.

Words by @rena.okamoto
Photography by Gustavo Lopes, Cynthia Bryan, Vanessa Lynn

Full article available in Issue 003.

Who governs memory—and who gets to decide what lasts.

A look at @kinfolktech and the infrastructures shaping public memory, where technology, community, and storytelling intersect to build something more collective, more intentional, and more alive.

Words by @rena.okamoto
Photography by Gustavo Lopes, Cynthia Bryan, Vanessa Lynn

Full article available in Issue 003.

Tonight’s teach-in, Beyond The Past Tense, is inspired by “Black Hole Spacetime Machine” an AR monument created in partnership with Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa of @blackquantumfuturism . The monument is a tribute to the legacy of preacher, social activist, educator, and entrepreneur Rev. Leon H. Sullivan. It encourages viewers to look beyond the constraints of the present to envision Black people thriving in the future.

There’s still time to register and join us for tonight’s dialogue with our panel of digital archivists. We’ll explore questions of data sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and how we build technologies that honor non-linear time, ancestral knowledge, and future generations simultaneously. We’ll examine how digital tools can help us break free from oppressive timelines that treat Black and Brown communities as disposable, always past, never future.

💻 The People’s Archive: Beyond The Past Tense
📅 Monday, April 20
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Tonight’s teach-in, Beyond The Past Tense, is inspired by “Black Hole Spacetime Machine” an AR monument created in partnership with Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa of @blackquantumfuturism . The monument is a tribute to the legacy of preacher, social activist, educator, and entrepreneur Rev. Leon H. Sullivan. It encourages viewers to look beyond the constraints of the present to envision Black people thriving in the future.

There’s still time to register and join us for tonight’s dialogue with our panel of digital archivists. We’ll explore questions of data sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and how we build technologies that honor non-linear time, ancestral knowledge, and future generations simultaneously. We’ll examine how digital tools can help us break free from oppressive timelines that treat Black and Brown communities as disposable, always past, never future.

💻 The People’s Archive: Beyond The Past Tense
📅 Monday, April 20
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Tonight’s teach-in, Beyond The Past Tense, is inspired by “Black Hole Spacetime Machine” an AR monument created in partnership with Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa of @blackquantumfuturism . The monument is a tribute to the legacy of preacher, social activist, educator, and entrepreneur Rev. Leon H. Sullivan. It encourages viewers to look beyond the constraints of the present to envision Black people thriving in the future.

There’s still time to register and join us for tonight’s dialogue with our panel of digital archivists. We’ll explore questions of data sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and how we build technologies that honor non-linear time, ancestral knowledge, and future generations simultaneously. We’ll examine how digital tools can help us break free from oppressive timelines that treat Black and Brown communities as disposable, always past, never future.

💻 The People’s Archive: Beyond The Past Tense
📅 Monday, April 20
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Tonight’s teach-in, Beyond The Past Tense, is inspired by “Black Hole Spacetime Machine” an AR monument created in partnership with Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa of @blackquantumfuturism . The monument is a tribute to the legacy of preacher, social activist, educator, and entrepreneur Rev. Leon H. Sullivan. It encourages viewers to look beyond the constraints of the present to envision Black people thriving in the future.

There’s still time to register and join us for tonight’s dialogue with our panel of digital archivists. We’ll explore questions of data sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and how we build technologies that honor non-linear time, ancestral knowledge, and future generations simultaneously. We’ll examine how digital tools can help us break free from oppressive timelines that treat Black and Brown communities as disposable, always past, never future.

💻 The People’s Archive: Beyond The Past Tense
📅 Monday, April 20
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Tonight’s teach-in, Beyond The Past Tense, is inspired by “Black Hole Spacetime Machine” an AR monument created in partnership with Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa of @blackquantumfuturism . The monument is a tribute to the legacy of preacher, social activist, educator, and entrepreneur Rev. Leon H. Sullivan. It encourages viewers to look beyond the constraints of the present to envision Black people thriving in the future.

There’s still time to register and join us for tonight’s dialogue with our panel of digital archivists. We’ll explore questions of data sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and how we build technologies that honor non-linear time, ancestral knowledge, and future generations simultaneously. We’ll examine how digital tools can help us break free from oppressive timelines that treat Black and Brown communities as disposable, always past, never future.

💻 The People’s Archive: Beyond The Past Tense
📅 Monday, April 20
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Tonight’s teach-in, Beyond The Past Tense, is inspired by “Black Hole Spacetime Machine” an AR monument created in partnership with Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa of @blackquantumfuturism . The monument is a tribute to the legacy of preacher, social activist, educator, and entrepreneur Rev. Leon H. Sullivan. It encourages viewers to look beyond the constraints of the present to envision Black people thriving in the future.

There’s still time to register and join us for tonight’s dialogue with our panel of digital archivists. We’ll explore questions of data sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and how we build technologies that honor non-linear time, ancestral knowledge, and future generations simultaneously. We’ll examine how digital tools can help us break free from oppressive timelines that treat Black and Brown communities as disposable, always past, never future.

💻 The People’s Archive: Beyond The Past Tense
📅 Monday, April 20
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Tonight’s teach-in, Beyond The Past Tense, is inspired by “Black Hole Spacetime Machine” an AR monument created in partnership with Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa of @blackquantumfuturism . The monument is a tribute to the legacy of preacher, social activist, educator, and entrepreneur Rev. Leon H. Sullivan. It encourages viewers to look beyond the constraints of the present to envision Black people thriving in the future.

There’s still time to register and join us for tonight’s dialogue with our panel of digital archivists. We’ll explore questions of data sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and how we build technologies that honor non-linear time, ancestral knowledge, and future generations simultaneously. We’ll examine how digital tools can help us break free from oppressive timelines that treat Black and Brown communities as disposable, always past, never future.

💻 The People’s Archive: Beyond The Past Tense
📅 Monday, April 20
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Kinfolk is honored and excited to be featured in Issue 003 of @aodmagazine titled Future Legacies. Issue 003 comes at a pivotal moment for both AoD Magazine and Kinfolk as both consider creativity, legacy, leadership, and purpose.

The piece on Kinfolk written by @rena.okamoto “Who Governs Memory” takes us back to our most ambitious exhibition to date, KIN, as well as exploring the importance of building infrastructure to support collective memory outside the current powers that be.

Read the full piece in @aodmagainze available for purchase at aodmagazine.com

Special thanks to @bobbytrendz @rena.okamoto and the whole team at @aodmagazine

Kinfolk is honored and excited to be featured in Issue 003 of @aodmagazine titled Future Legacies. Issue 003 comes at a pivotal moment for both AoD Magazine and Kinfolk as both consider creativity, legacy, leadership, and purpose.

The piece on Kinfolk written by @rena.okamoto “Who Governs Memory” takes us back to our most ambitious exhibition to date, KIN, as well as exploring the importance of building infrastructure to support collective memory outside the current powers that be.

Read the full piece in @aodmagainze available for purchase at aodmagazine.com

Special thanks to @bobbytrendz @rena.okamoto and the whole team at @aodmagazine

Kinfolk is honored and excited to be featured in Issue 003 of @aodmagazine titled Future Legacies. Issue 003 comes at a pivotal moment for both AoD Magazine and Kinfolk as both consider creativity, legacy, leadership, and purpose.

The piece on Kinfolk written by @rena.okamoto “Who Governs Memory” takes us back to our most ambitious exhibition to date, KIN, as well as exploring the importance of building infrastructure to support collective memory outside the current powers that be.

Read the full piece in @aodmagainze available for purchase at aodmagazine.com

Special thanks to @bobbytrendz @rena.okamoto and the whole team at @aodmagazine

Kinfolk is honored and excited to be featured in Issue 003 of @aodmagazine titled Future Legacies. Issue 003 comes at a pivotal moment for both AoD Magazine and Kinfolk as both consider creativity, legacy, leadership, and purpose.

The piece on Kinfolk written by @rena.okamoto “Who Governs Memory” takes us back to our most ambitious exhibition to date, KIN, as well as exploring the importance of building infrastructure to support collective memory outside the current powers that be.

Read the full piece in @aodmagainze available for purchase at aodmagazine.com

Special thanks to @bobbytrendz @rena.okamoto and the whole team at @aodmagazine

Kinfolk is honored and excited to be featured in Issue 003 of @aodmagazine titled Future Legacies. Issue 003 comes at a pivotal moment for both AoD Magazine and Kinfolk as both consider creativity, legacy, leadership, and purpose.

The piece on Kinfolk written by @rena.okamoto “Who Governs Memory” takes us back to our most ambitious exhibition to date, KIN, as well as exploring the importance of building infrastructure to support collective memory outside the current powers that be.

Read the full piece in @aodmagainze available for purchase at aodmagazine.com

Special thanks to @bobbytrendz @rena.okamoto and the whole team at @aodmagazine

Kinfolk is honored and excited to be featured in Issue 003 of @aodmagazine titled Future Legacies. Issue 003 comes at a pivotal moment for both AoD Magazine and Kinfolk as both consider creativity, legacy, leadership, and purpose.

The piece on Kinfolk written by @rena.okamoto “Who Governs Memory” takes us back to our most ambitious exhibition to date, KIN, as well as exploring the importance of building infrastructure to support collective memory outside the current powers that be.

Read the full piece in @aodmagainze available for purchase at aodmagazine.com

Special thanks to @bobbytrendz @rena.okamoto and the whole team at @aodmagazine

Kinfolk is honored and excited to be featured in Issue 003 of @aodmagazine titled Future Legacies. Issue 003 comes at a pivotal moment for both AoD Magazine and Kinfolk as both consider creativity, legacy, leadership, and purpose.

The piece on Kinfolk written by @rena.okamoto “Who Governs Memory” takes us back to our most ambitious exhibition to date, KIN, as well as exploring the importance of building infrastructure to support collective memory outside the current powers that be.

Read the full piece in @aodmagainze available for purchase at aodmagazine.com

Special thanks to @bobbytrendz @rena.okamoto and the whole team at @aodmagazine

Kinfolk is honored and excited to be featured in Issue 003 of @aodmagazine titled Future Legacies. Issue 003 comes at a pivotal moment for both AoD Magazine and Kinfolk as both consider creativity, legacy, leadership, and purpose.

The piece on Kinfolk written by @rena.okamoto “Who Governs Memory” takes us back to our most ambitious exhibition to date, KIN, as well as exploring the importance of building infrastructure to support collective memory outside the current powers that be.

Read the full piece in @aodmagainze available for purchase at aodmagazine.com

Special thanks to @bobbytrendz @rena.okamoto and the whole team at @aodmagazine

Kinfolk is honored and excited to be featured in Issue 003 of @aodmagazine titled Future Legacies. Issue 003 comes at a pivotal moment for both AoD Magazine and Kinfolk as both consider creativity, legacy, leadership, and purpose.

The piece on Kinfolk written by @rena.okamoto “Who Governs Memory” takes us back to our most ambitious exhibition to date, KIN, as well as exploring the importance of building infrastructure to support collective memory outside the current powers that be.

Read the full piece in @aodmagainze available for purchase at aodmagazine.com

Special thanks to @bobbytrendz @rena.okamoto and the whole team at @aodmagazine

Kinfolk is honored and excited to be featured in Issue 003 of @aodmagazine titled Future Legacies. Issue 003 comes at a pivotal moment for both AoD Magazine and Kinfolk as both consider creativity, legacy, leadership, and purpose.

The piece on Kinfolk written by @rena.okamoto “Who Governs Memory” takes us back to our most ambitious exhibition to date, KIN, as well as exploring the importance of building infrastructure to support collective memory outside the current powers that be.

Read the full piece in @aodmagainze available for purchase at aodmagazine.com

Special thanks to @bobbytrendz @rena.okamoto and the whole team at @aodmagazine