Ujima presents "Shantel's World: Art, Imagination, Inspiration," a special microlearning pod facilitated by renowned artist, Shantel Miller. Shantel is a Jamaican-Canadian visual artist and Ujima's current Arts & Cultural Organizing Fellow. In this series, participants get a taste of Shantel's approach to creating stunning figurative paintings, exploring her process, and inviting folks to reflect on their own visual inspirations. Follow Shantel online: https://shantel-miller.format.com Follow us online: https://www.ujimaboston.com​​​ https://www.twitter.com/ujimaboston/​​​ https://www.instagram.com/ujimaboston/ https://www.facebook.com/bostonujimaproject The Boston Ujima Project is a democratic, member-run organization building a cooperative business, arts, and investment ecosystem in Boston, with a mission to return wealth to working-class communities of color. Ujima is bringing together neighbors, workers, business owners, investors, grassroots organizers, and culture-makers, to create a community-controlled economy in our city.

In part one of four in this limited series Tomashi Jackson facilitates a Microlearning Pod focused on histories of educational advocacy, Case history before and after Brown v Board of Education, The racial biases of algorithms as well as Ubuntu, and much more! Follow us online: https://www.ujimaboston.com​​​ https://www.twitter.com/ujimaboston/​​​ https://www.instagram.com/ujimaboston... The Boston Ujima Project is a democratic, member-run organization building a cooperative business, arts, and investment ecosystem in Boston, with a mission to return wealth to working-class communities of color. Ujima is bringing together neighbors, workers, business owners, investors, grassroots organizers, and culture-makers, to create a community-controlled economy in our city.

Cyborgs are human beings whose bodies are embedded with technology. With the use of race (followed closely by gender) as technologies to stratify and hierarchize humans, Black womxn are relegated to cyborgian realities of continued racialization and dehumanization. Yet, we subvert white supremacy, toxic masculinity, and cishetero-normativity every single day. And, continue self-naming, meaning-making, and co-creating cyborgian tools for transforming our realities to not only survive, but to also thrive. In this workshop, viewers are given a brief introduction into overarching themes: afrofuturism, cyborg, speculative media, afro/indigenous technologies, spiritual beings, and ecological justice. ABOUT THE SERIES The Abundant Futures Incubator Series is an organizing project in which we design portals for travelling to other worlds and pluriverses. It applies Afro/indigenous technologies, womxnist ways of being, and Black/queer revolutionary knowledges for co-creating liberation. And, it incorporates community-based participatory action research methods; embodied healing and wellbeing practices; (socio-)ecological transformation strategies; restorative justice frameworks; and Afrofuturist speculative art to help us imagine, remember, and access realities where we are already free. The ultimate goal of this series is to eventually build a complete (virtual, local, and/or hybrid) Abundant Futures Incubator space that invites marginalized folx to seed, root, cultivate, and grow social innovations for ourselves with our communities. ABOUT LYSE Lyse Fedjanie Barronville (she/they) is an Afrofuture doula and ancestor guide who facilitates the transformational labor of birthing freedom.