Scrap Theory: Mali D. Collins in Conversation

We’re excited to host author Mali D. Collins on February 5th to discuss her book, Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination.

In her debut, full length text, Mali considers the histories of state-sanctioned maternal dispossession and accents the importance of the creative & documentary work by contemporary visual and literary artists as an essential tool to shift our understandings of fragmentation and caregiving.

Join the Clifton House as we explore how art-making provides a counterpoint to the historically ephemeral and violent acts of the redactive archive toward a history that celebrates the timelessness of Black Women’s memory work.

Registration is open, join us for this perspective-shifting event.

Event begins: 6:00PM

About the Author:

Mali Collins is a creative writer and doula living in Baltimore, MD. Her poetry and creative essays have been featured in SALT: Contemporary Art + Feminism, The HAUNT Journal of Art, A Gathering Together, and in edited anthologies from Demeter Press and University of Mississippi Press. She recently finished her tenure as a poet-in-residence with Yellow Arrow Publishing where she developed her further chapbook on the themes of kinship and separation. Since 2021, she has been an assistant professor of African & African Diaspora Studies at American University in Washington, D.C where she teaches courses on the politics of black motherhood and contemporary Black feminist literature and art.

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