The Cypher: Freedom Dreaming and Black Sustainability Beyond the Ruins

Authors

• Tiffani Marie, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USAFollow
• Kenjus Watson, School of Education, American University, Washington, DC, USAFollow
• David Stovall, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USAFollow
• Dre Carter, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USAFollow
• simple ant, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USAFollow
• Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USAFollow

Abstract

In confronting the structural collapse of modernity and the dehumanization inherent in public institutions, this cypher serves as a site of radical imagination and sonic medicine. By centering freedom dreaming and Black sustainability, we argue for the necessary pedagogical movements of Black Educology. Ultimately, we invite a collective reimagining of death, not as an end but as a communal transition toward life beyond the trap of modernity.

Recommended Citation

Marie, T., Watson, K., Stovall, D., Carter, D., ant, s., & Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. (2026). The Cypher: Freedom Dreaming and Black Sustainability Beyond the Ruins. Black Educology Mixtape "Journal", 4(1). Retrieved from https://repository.usfca.edu/be/vol4/iss1/1