Time Has Grandmothers: Making and Unmaking Feminist Futures
Tue, Feb 09
|Denison University
Situated within the Laura C. Harris Series theme, Feminist Temporalities and the Futures We Strive For, this lecture features Rasheedah Phillips — a national housing policy expert, attorney, deputy director at the Western Center on Law and Poverty, and acclaimed interdisciplinary artist.
Time & Location
Feb 09, 2027, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Denison University, 100 W College St, Granville, OH 43023, USA
About the event
Situated within the Laura C. Harris Series theme, Feminist Temporalities and the Futures We Strive For, this lecture features Rasheedah Phillips — a national housing policy expert, attorney, deputy director at the Western Center on Law and Poverty, and acclaimed interdisciplinary artist. Bringing a rich, multidimensional background as a writer, cultural producer, and founder of The AfroFuturist Affair and co-founder of Black Quantum Futurism, Phillips challenges Western linear models of time, conventional causality, and dominant historical narratives.
Drawing from her extensive creative and theoretical work — including her book Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time (AK Press, 2025) and projects that span speculative fiction, archival practice, performance, and international exhibitions at institutions like the Serpentine Gallery and documenta fifteen — Phillips explores how dominant perceptions of time owe more to social constructs than universal facts of nature.
In this session, Phillips weaves together Afrodiasporic conceptions of time and…