Outward Mobility: Regenerative Horizontal Moves in the face of Confinement
By Quetzal Flores
Outward Mobility: Regenerative Horizontal Moves in the face of Confinement
By Quetzal Flores
“Outward Mobility as a methodology, can be understood as individual (as collective) and collective lateral movements out of harm's way of the dominant structure, into spaces of imagination and possibilities. Leveraging deeply rooted traditional cultural practices sustained and innovated upon in BIPOC communities as vehicles for transporting us outward, where we intentionally propagate interwoven, sustainable and cooperative systems and structures for now and future generations. As a theoretical framework, Outward Mobility is a collective mirror by which we can look at the most simplistic or complex cultural practice and find beauty, belonging, connection and an inherent community accountability. Access to this mobility requires critical cultural shifts away from perpetual reactive modes of resistance and into ones of regeneration where many work together to will an emergent “world where many worlds fit”.”
