Twelve years into Free Minds Free People it seemed time for us to collectively reflect on our activities, inspirations, and influences–and to imagine our community into the future.
12 Years Free! was created for FMFP 2019 to exhibit artifacts from previous conferences collected by the Documentation & Evaluation
Committee and others. By day two of the exhibit, the curatorial team (Jamilyn Salonga Bailey, Brian Ford, Gabriela Fullon, Adeola Oredola, Susan Wilcox) was already committed to making it a permanent feature of FMFP. Since the exhibit will carry on in-person (once we are again free to roam) and continually hone the FMFP story, they renamed the exhibit re/membering our future.
The concept of re/membering our future comes from some of our Indigenous elders who animate a “radical remembering of our future” and the Akan concept of Sankofa (to go back and fetch it). Like a tree with deep roots, we remember our future to help us continue to imagine growing into our liberation.
