MELT Reading Group: Ways to Move - Black Insurgent Grammars

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Thu, Jul 23, 2026 | 6:30-8:00pm

a dark green book cover with a textured, painterly surface resembling an aerial view of land and water. faint silhouettes suggest a figure reclining or drifting along the right side. across the center spine, vertical text reads “ways to move” and “black insurgent grammars” by jonathan gonzález. on the front cover, the title appears in serif type at the lower right. on the back, soft white lines of text read: “i want to be with you in the ways with you of vertigo seas / i want to be with you in the ways with you of smashing monuments / i want to be with you in the ways with you of these lonely trees.” the overall design is atmospheric, minimal, and evocative of movement, memory, and landscape.

This MELT Reading Group will engage with text from the book “Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars” by Jonathan González. Moving between archival fragments, rehearsal notes, and speculative memory, “Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars” traces the embodied frequencies and assembled states of Black life. González theorizes Blackness as a grammar, occupying the interstices of white colonial culture; Black movement and expression are both defined by and break down the hegemonic. Through a consideration of land, politics, magic, and movement, this hybrid work performs the perpetually unfinished task of resistance.

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Accessibility Notes

This event includes auditive guidance.
This event will include text/images/video shared on a large screen tv.
This event includes readings.

To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, “MELT Event” at least three (3) weeks prior to the event date.

For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “MELT Event.”