The 2024 Pan African Conference theme, named in honor of bell hooks' captivating essay, “Homeplace: A Site of Resistance,” invites participants to explore how they are cultivating nurturing, and affirming safe spaces and groups as a collective form of resistance, transformation, and reclamation. Black resistance emphasizes thriving in spaces that were never built with us in mind, such as higher education. We challenge you to take up space, honoring our authenticity, histories, intersecting identities, and shared joys.
Source: 2024 Pan African Conference Theme
Homeplace was originally published in Yearning: race, gender, and cultural politics by Audio excerpt of Homeplace narrated by Savona Bailey-McClain:
In this video, the African-American Writers' Alliance discuss the essay “Homeplace: a Site of Resistance” by bell hooks
