Congratulations to Kathryn Benjamin Golden! THIS INSURGENT GROUND: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp is out in the world! This is a tremendously well-written and insightful history of Black women’s fugitive world making.
September 16, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Congratulations to Kathryn Benjamin Golden! THIS INSURGENT GROUND: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp is out in the world! This is a tremendously well-written and insightful history of Black women’s fugitive world making.
I really want to learn more about marronage, anyone have audiobooks or videos they like?
February 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I really want to learn more about marronage, anyone have audiobooks or videos they like?
Join me and curators at #Harvard for an art opening on Marronage in the Francophone Caribbean, September 29th 5pm - Van Lévé - Sovereign Visions
September 28, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Join me and curators at #Harvard for an art opening on Marronage in the Francophone Caribbean, September 29th 5pm - Van Lévé - Sovereign Visions
This Insurgent Ground
Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp
uncpress.org/978146969797...
Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp
uncpress.org/978146969797...
September 26, 2026 at 6:14 AM
This Insurgent Ground
Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp
uncpress.org/978146969797...
Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp
uncpress.org/978146969797...
On soil, swamps, mangroves, nutmeg, sugar, cultivation, plantations, and marronage
Cultivating the Caribbean: Ecologies of land, text and vision - CRASSH
post_excerpt
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
October 4, 2024 at 4:14 PM
On soil, swamps, mangroves, nutmeg, sugar, cultivation, plantations, and marronage
Marronage as human futurity.
Yesss. A similar analysis:
V. Abloh: Black influence has created a new ecosystem which can grow & support different types of life…
Arthur Jafa: I call that a black terra form.. it's frightening! It’s the transformation of the cultural ecosystem. And it’s totally counterintuitive under capitalism.
V. Abloh: Black influence has created a new ecosystem which can grow & support different types of life…
Arthur Jafa: I call that a black terra form.. it's frightening! It’s the transformation of the cultural ecosystem. And it’s totally counterintuitive under capitalism.
A reflection on the power of young people to create new institutions worldwide, using hip hop as a model.
geniuslocus.com/2026/06/14/g...
geniuslocus.com/2026/06/14/g...
June 19, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Marronage as human futurity.
White flight as marronage. In this essay I will —
June 7, 2024 at 9:34 PM
White flight as marronage. In this essay I will —
Giving a guest lecture on Thursday and will use the opportunity to honor Nikki Giovanni + Black feminist genealogies at the heart of my test kitchen. She taught us what it means to gather. 🕯️
www.kitchenmarronage.com
www.kitchenmarronage.com
Kitchen Marronage
www.kitchenmarronage.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Giving a guest lecture on Thursday and will use the opportunity to honor Nikki Giovanni + Black feminist genealogies at the heart of my test kitchen. She taught us what it means to gather. 🕯️
www.kitchenmarronage.com
www.kitchenmarronage.com
"Maroon communities throughout Texas, Louisiana, and other places were brought here for [their] knowledge; they were able to take it into these landscapes and continue to figure it out. And they also exchanged knowledge with Indigenous people."
From the Plantation to the Thicket: Juneteenth, Black Freedom, and 'Marronage' in Texas
Freedom in Texas was achieved both after—and before—formal emancipation.
www.texasobserver.org
June 18, 2026 at 8:00 PM
"Maroon communities throughout Texas, Louisiana, and other places were brought here for [their] knowledge; they were able to take it into these landscapes and continue to figure it out. And they also exchanged knowledge with Indigenous people."
"Resistance to slavery was an ever-present part of life across the Americas. People of African descent sought freedom through legal channels, military service, marronage, collective action, subtle resistance, and overt warfare."
During Christmas in 1521, the first recorded slave revolt was instigated by Maria Wolof on the Hispaniola plantation of Christopher Columbus’ son.
www.aaihs.org/traditions-o...
www.aaihs.org/traditions-o...
Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora
African resistance to American slavery originated at the moment African slavery in the Americas began. The first recorded enslaved Africans landed in Hispaniola (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
www.aaihs.org
December 26, 2024 at 3:20 PM
"Resistance to slavery was an ever-present part of life across the Americas. People of African descent sought freedom through legal channels, military service, marronage, collective action, subtle resistance, and overt warfare."
TODAY, Thurs 4 June · 2–3pm BST
#CHoM welcomes Nigel Browne-Davies (@camhistory.bsky.social PhD candidate, @queens.cam.ac.uk,
@cam.ac.uk):
"From Maroon to Creole: Loyalism, Marronage & Creolization."
MS Teams (#LinkInBio)
#CamMarronage #Marronage #Maroons #BlackLoyalists #BlackHistory #Black
#CHoM welcomes Nigel Browne-Davies (@camhistory.bsky.social PhD candidate, @queens.cam.ac.uk,
@cam.ac.uk):
"From Maroon to Creole: Loyalism, Marronage & Creolization."
MS Teams (#LinkInBio)
#CamMarronage #Marronage #Maroons #BlackLoyalists #BlackHistory #Black
June 4, 2026 at 10:21 AM
TODAY, Thurs 4 June · 2–3pm BST
#CHoM welcomes Nigel Browne-Davies (@camhistory.bsky.social PhD candidate, @queens.cam.ac.uk,
@cam.ac.uk):
"From Maroon to Creole: Loyalism, Marronage & Creolization."
MS Teams (#LinkInBio)
#CamMarronage #Marronage #Maroons #BlackLoyalists #BlackHistory #Black
#CHoM welcomes Nigel Browne-Davies (@camhistory.bsky.social PhD candidate, @queens.cam.ac.uk,
@cam.ac.uk):
"From Maroon to Creole: Loyalism, Marronage & Creolization."
MS Teams (#LinkInBio)
#CamMarronage #Marronage #Maroons #BlackLoyalists #BlackHistory #Black
Even in Africa.
"I went to some villages [in Morocco] where there are black communities. They represent forms of marronage not even in Moroccan history or episteme.
By interviewing older generations, I learned that theirs was a recent marronage, starting in the early 1960s."
- M’barek Bouhchichi
"I went to some villages [in Morocco] where there are black communities. They represent forms of marronage not even in Moroccan history or episteme.
By interviewing older generations, I learned that theirs was a recent marronage, starting in the early 1960s."
- M’barek Bouhchichi
Art is a place for rehearsal
What happens when art steps into the gaps left by official history? A conversation on race, memory, and the unfinished work of making meaning.
africasacountry.com
June 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Even in Africa.
"I went to some villages [in Morocco] where there are black communities. They represent forms of marronage not even in Moroccan history or episteme.
By interviewing older generations, I learned that theirs was a recent marronage, starting in the early 1960s."
- M’barek Bouhchichi
"I went to some villages [in Morocco] where there are black communities. They represent forms of marronage not even in Moroccan history or episteme.
By interviewing older generations, I learned that theirs was a recent marronage, starting in the early 1960s."
- M’barek Bouhchichi
Unlearn imperialism. Today is a great day to start. #marronage
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Unlearn imperialism. Today is a great day to start. #marronage
Sylviane Diouf has an excellent book on marronage in (what is now) the U.S. called Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
June 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Sylviane Diouf has an excellent book on marronage in (what is now) the U.S. called Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
November 21, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Cambridge Histories of Marronage workshop TODAY with @daroldcuba.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️
📜Thu 21 May · 2–3pmBST📜
@daroldcuba.bsky.social (Cam.ac.uk), #HistoryPhD candidate, @stjohnscollege.bsky.social:
" #HarvestAsMarronage: Shankleville's #TexasPurpleHullPea Festival & the #MaroonLegacies of #FreedomColonies."
Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331...
#CHoM #Maroon #Marronage
@daroldcuba.bsky.social (Cam.ac.uk), #HistoryPhD candidate, @stjohnscollege.bsky.social:
" #HarvestAsMarronage: Shankleville's #TexasPurpleHullPea Festival & the #MaroonLegacies of #FreedomColonies."
Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331...
#CHoM #Maroon #Marronage
May 21, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Cambridge Histories of Marronage workshop TODAY with @daroldcuba.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️
This week: how to make art with a full-time job, portraits of Black marronage, artists vs. algorithms, US men’s hockey team acts up (again), snow sculptures in NYC, and more.
Required Reading
This week: how to make art with a full-time job, portraits of Black marronage, artists vs. algorithms, US men’s hockey team acts up (again), snow sculptures in NYC, and more.
hyperallergic.com
February 27, 2026 at 8:28 PM
This week: how to make art with a full-time job, portraits of Black marronage, artists vs. algorithms, US men’s hockey team acts up (again), snow sculptures in NYC, and more.
Marronage downtown
December 5, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Marronage downtown
A Totally Different Form of Living
On the Legacies of Displacement and Marronage as Black Ecologies, Justin Hosbey and JT Roane . Southern Cultures. muse.jhu.edu/article/786957
On the Legacies of Displacement and Marronage as Black Ecologies, Justin Hosbey and JT Roane . Southern Cultures. muse.jhu.edu/article/786957
January 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A Totally Different Form of Living
On the Legacies of Displacement and Marronage as Black Ecologies, Justin Hosbey and JT Roane . Southern Cultures. muse.jhu.edu/article/786957
On the Legacies of Displacement and Marronage as Black Ecologies, Justin Hosbey and JT Roane . Southern Cultures. muse.jhu.edu/article/786957
Marronage as a Guide to Police Abolition
On the latest episode of #LeftOfBlack, critical geographer Dr. Celeste Winston joined me to discuss her book,'How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing' (Duke University Press)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W0A...
On the latest episode of #LeftOfBlack, critical geographer Dr. Celeste Winston joined me to discuss her book,'How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing' (Duke University Press)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W0A...
Left of Black | A World Beyond Policing with Celeste Winston on Black Maroons
YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U.
www.youtube.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Marronage as a Guide to Police Abolition
On the latest episode of #LeftOfBlack, critical geographer Dr. Celeste Winston joined me to discuss her book,'How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing' (Duke University Press)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W0A...
On the latest episode of #LeftOfBlack, critical geographer Dr. Celeste Winston joined me to discuss her book,'How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing' (Duke University Press)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W0A...
A lot of people are thinking "how do we build corruption proof institutions" when they need to be thinking "how do i do an underground railroad" or "how did they get those manuscripts and paintings and artifacts out of Timbuktu or Germany &c".
August 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Spill, Dub, and M Archive by @alexispauline.bsky.social are three of my favorite books and I always recommend them TOGETHER!
I was rereading Spill early last year when I was called to think about fugitivity, resistance, and marronage after the election as inauguration.
I was rereading Spill early last year when I was called to think about fugitivity, resistance, and marronage after the election as inauguration.
The self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist, Alexis Pauline Gumbs joined #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book 'Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity' (@dukepress.bsky.social)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmM... #BlackWomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmM... #BlackWomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth
Left of Black with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University
www.youtube.com
March 19, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Spill, Dub, and M Archive by @alexispauline.bsky.social are three of my favorite books and I always recommend them TOGETHER!
I was rereading Spill early last year when I was called to think about fugitivity, resistance, and marronage after the election as inauguration.
I was rereading Spill early last year when I was called to think about fugitivity, resistance, and marronage after the election as inauguration.
From Dalyah Jones: "So I think that’s the message for us, especially today: that we got to go from the plantation to the thicket. It’s gonna be tough, but we gotta take action. "
From the Plantation to the Thicket: Juneteenth, Black Freedom, and 'Marronage' in Texas
Freedom in Texas was achieved both after—and before—formal emancipation.
www.texasobserver.org
June 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM
From Dalyah Jones: "So I think that’s the message for us, especially today: that we got to go from the plantation to the thicket. It’s gonna be tough, but we gotta take action. "
This cursed skeet brought to you by my currently reading Neil Roberts' "Freedom as Marronage" and my listening yesterday to an NPR segment on some Louisiana white folks literally founding a new town in order to get out of the mostly black school district.
June 7, 2024 at 9:35 PM
This cursed skeet brought to you by my currently reading Neil Roberts' "Freedom as Marronage" and my listening yesterday to an NPR segment on some Louisiana white folks literally founding a new town in order to get out of the mostly black school district.
Happening this week! Looking forward to thinking across disciplines and about marronage with amazing people. 🌿 www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...
July 15, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Happening this week! Looking forward to thinking across disciplines and about marronage with amazing people. 🌿 www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...