Our greatest inspiration for this issue was to connect the animated dreams of our ancestors to the energy and upheaval mounted by dreamers today. How do we use our dreams and the art that they birth to take us to a new future?
Free Dreams represents our commitment to dream outside the confines of the colonial architecture that defines our lives and relationship to the state. All of the issues we’ve published and the work we are passionate about at 1919, are a reflection of the values and beliefs that ground us in the work we wish to do, the communities we represent, and the freedoms we seek. With this issue as an organizing backdrop, Free Dreams brings together the voices of Black and racialized community actors to share their art, stories, and critique in conversation with each other, the reader, and their fellow community members. Across the art, stories, and conversations included in this issue you’ll find topics related to abolition and reclaiming the future, displacement and settler colonialism, revolt, heartache, teaching as a foundational element of dreaming, and Black Futurism. You'll find these stories communicated in written and visual mediums such as poetry, essays, creative writing, photography, visual art, and theatre.
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