Dismantling the Master’s Clock at Harriett's Bookshop
Mon, Mar 10
|Philadelphia
Spend Harriett Tubman Day Dismantling the Master’s Clock w/ Rasheedah Phillips.


Time & Location
Mar 10, 2025, 7:00 PM EDT – Apr 07, 2025, 8:30 PM EDT
Philadelphia, 258 E Girard Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19125, USA
About the event
Join us on Mon Mar 10 2025 at 7:00 PM at Harriett's Bookshop for an evening of thought-provoking discussions and reflections. A radical new treatise on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from world-renowned artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism.
Why do some processes—like aging, birth, and car crashes—occur in only one direction in time, when by the fundamental symmetry of the universe, we should experience time both forward and backward? Our dominant perception of time owes more to Western history and social order than to a fact of nature, argues writer Rasheedah Phillips, delving into Black and Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, where the past, present, and future interact in more numerous constellations.
Phillips unfolds the history of time and its legacy of racial oppression, from colonial exploration and the plantation system to the establishment of Daylight Savings. Yet Black communities have long subverted space-time through such…