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What does it mean, in this moment – echoes of and the culmination of moments before, to teach, learn, share, and evolve within increasingly violent conditions. What is and where are our (your) terrains of struggle for the Black working class, heretical intellectuals, and inherently rebellious minded youth? What are our weapons? Where do we find our center? Upon what do we build our barriers of resistance? How do we organize a people who do not, yet, fully know, they should be organized? What is the meaning of joining an organization, when the organization is content to be caught in a cycle of ‘actions’ that are not attached or show any real signs of impacting the critical consciousness of the very people they say they are organizing? What does liberation mean, when the Congo has been in a constant state of conflict, fueled by external interests, for over the past 140+ years? What are the contours of our conjuncture? The nexus of our time? What does it mean to offer an intersectional analysis built upon colonial conceptualizations of our realities and what it means to be human? What does it mean to live in a so-called intellectual world with so much criticism and no real critique? What is our center? What traditions and genealogies of living do we study to find our weapons of theory? Our pedagogy of revolution? Where do we go to create, connect, and expand our forms of knowledge and ways of being? What is our conceptualization of a new society through an intentional study of the one that is decaying, to bring into being the one as yet to form? There is hope, some say, the old forms of oppression are at their limit, capitalism is at a breaking point … but what do we say when we look closely to see capital is becoming something else too (something old, yet new)?