After-End: Black Freedoms and The Live Moment

Abstract

This article was created based on a talk given by Canisia Lubrin with the Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA) for the conference, “Black Solidarities, Thought and the Quest for Black Freedom”. It engages with the themes of Black solidarities, thought, and the quest for Black freedom, in the interest of recognizing the complexities of its range. In this era of new forms of Black dispersement, the author offered this as a care work in the core character of Blackness. It is a wish for a kind of respite from the ontological over-determinism that bares down on us from all directions, from the restlessness that forms the tenor of our being in this world.