Visiting Scholar: Rasheedah Phillips, "All the Possible Paths: From Colonized Futures to Reparative SpaceTimes"

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Visiting Scholar: Rasheedah Phillips Artist, Housing Advocate, Author All the Possible Paths: From Colonized Futures to Reparative SpaceTimes Thursday, December 3 | 7:30 PM | Ruth Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall (PAC 134) Free and open to the public! Our dominant perception of time and the future owes more to Western history and social order than to any fact of nature. This lecture challenges traditional notions of history, causality, and narrative, opening a space for reparative temporal and spatial practices and showing examples of how time and space can be reclaimed and restructured. Through Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, where past, present, and future interact across numerous constellations, Rasheedah Phillips considers how we might imagine and inhabit other possible paths toward reparative SpaceTimes. Rasheedah Phillips is a queer housing policy advocate, attorney, parent, writer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural producer who uses web-based projects, zines, short film, archival practices, experimental non-fiction, speculative fiction, printmaking, performance, social practice, installation and creative research to explore the construct of time, temporalities, and community futurisms through a Black futurist cultural lens and experience. Phillips' writing and artwork has appeared in The Funambulist Magazine , e-flux Architecture , Flash Art Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, Recess Arts, and more . Phillips is the founder of The AfroFuturist Affair, founding member of Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, co-founder of Black Quantum Futurism, co-creator of the award-winning Community Futures Lab, and creator of the Black Women Temporal Portal and Black Time Belt projects. Recognized as a national expert in housing policy, Phillips is a 2016 graduate of Shriver Center Racial Justice Institute, 2018 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, and 2021 PolicyLink Ambassador for Health Equity. As part of BQF and as a solo artist, Phillips has been awarded an Arts at CERN Collide Artists Residency, Vera List Center Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, United States Artist, among others, and has exhibited, presented at, been in residence, and performed at Institute of Contemporary Art London, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Serpentine Gallery, Red Bull Arts, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Counterpublic, Manifesta 13 Biennale, documenta fifteen, and more. Phillips is the author of Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time (AK Press, 2025). Visit www.rasheedah.net for more information. Co-sponsored by the Chico State Women's Philanthropy Council and the University Foundation.