How do we stitch together the story of a region? How do we remember family and home through keepsakes and traditions passed down? How do we map everyday practices within a larger genealogy of collective struggle and resistance?

Oakland-based poet and scholar Wendy M. Thompson asks these questions while centering the cultural labor of Black women, whose work and art are core to Black family identity, tradition, political organizing, and belonging in the Black West.

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