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In her 2018 M Archive: After the End of the World, Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes: “you can have breathing and the reality of the radical black porousness of love (aka black feminist metaphysics aka us all of us, us) or you cannot. there is only both or neither. there is no either or. there is no this or that. there is only all" (7)

How do scholars in Black Studies theorize breath? How do we hold breath as life (as in “I can’t breath”) next to breathing as poison in our ever-polluting world? What are the environmental considerations of breath and how are those considerations political? How do Black writers narrativize breath; how is breath a visual metaphor for artists; how does performance art complicate the act of breathing?

This seminar invites abstracts of up to 300 words on how Black scholars, artists, activists, and writers engage breathing as praxis and as politics. Any work that considers Blackness and breathing is welcome. Please include a brief bio with your submission.