The Years They've Taken: Systemic Oppression, Black Bodies, and the Materiality of Grief

Abstract

Lane and Perry conversation regarding their practice and friendship is presented. This discussion deepens their inquiries into Blackness, grief, mourning, vengeance, humor, and the physicality of survival. Taking place seven months into COVID times, they talk about how to create meaning out of the uprising for racial justice while managing their own grief as it both contracts and expands during a protracted, global pandemic whose end feels like a receding horizon.