DESCRIPTION

Episode 1:9 of the Futures Initiative podcast is rejoined by our Faculty Chair and host, Dr. Shelly Eversley. In this episode we bring you the brilliant and newly minted, Dr. jah elyse sayers for an inspiring, empowering, and tender conversation about their Riisearch and organizing work at the People’s Beach. Dr. sayers discusses Blackqueer placemaking, organizing as research, and moving beyond the confines of the institution in order to create more equitable and innovative spaces for knowledge production. 

RESOURCES

People’s Riisearch Group/Riis Beach Bloc Association (Instagram)

People’s Riisearch Group Linktree (including zine library)

G.L.I.T.S

Peer Instruction

ARTICLES

Placemaking When “freedom is a place”: Tracing Liberatory Infrastructures from Queer

Riis Beach, by Dr. jah elyse sayers

Coming Together as the Riis Beach Bloc Association, by Dr. jah elyse sayers

A Private Club Plans a Grand Debut on the ‘People’s Beach’
Riis Beach Bloc Association’s response to NY Times article

BOOKS

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick

CREDITS

Host:  Dr. Shelly Eversley, FI Faculty Chair
Guest: Dr. jah elyse sayers
Co-producers: Oliver Silverman & Vallerie Matos, FI Fellows
Editor: Devanté Duncan, CUNY Undergraduate Peer Leader
Recorded at CUNY TV in New York City.