Rebekah reflects on her agency from her childhood to the present, the impact the community had on them over the course of the Community Study, and their thoughts on participating in academia.

This piece considers how, as Bone Black affirms, the construction or reconstruction of memory is a necessary recourse for healing and creative release.

We all engage with cathexis but we often conflate it with respect, positive conditional regard, and, most dangerously, love.

A personal reflection on how jaime ding has been thinking about the limits of love, and the unlearning of such restraints.

Across the spring and summer months of 2022, participants in Community Study gathered together to honor the work and memory of our beloved ancestor bell hooks. In this series, we reflect on and pay homage to our time together, exploring what bell and these gatherings meant to each of us. This brief introduction and expression of gratitude by nicholae cline contextualizes the pieces in this series, highlighting some of the threads that bind these reflections together.