The Welcoming
The past, present, and future of our city communities in the United States exist within colonization’s ongoing violence - a perpetual state of lived aftermath to stolen lands, white supremacy, genocide, slavery, and anthropogenic climate change. Our land and water relations remember how we treat them with sewage, chemicals, and trash, and they influence the artistic expressions and world’s of Black Philadelphia writers, philosophers, artists.
The Post Colonial Dreams Museum explores the stories of climate racism, Indigeneity, and climate change that Philadelphia's public art and environmental histories tell. Post Colonial Dreams is organized into seven temporal realities - seven chapters to align with the idea of seven cardinal directions (east, west, north, south, up, down, you at the center). Each chapter is a retelling of the lived aftermath and speculative future imaginations of the Black and Indigenous experience beyond the settler colonial state in Philadelphia, PA.
