![]() We make plans on how and when to break the glass. How might we handle the document differently (as we stay wary of the atrocities of the manual), move with it, fight with it, care for the people entangled in its web? We ask questions-How did it feel? What did they want? Why did they go rather than where?-respecting their right to disappear as well as the structures of violence that accompanied this disappearance (as Jack Halberstam once put it to me). Be with me huddling, squinting, poring, back aching, neck spasming, knees stiffening, your body carrying what others have given up. With me, here at the table, in the box, with gloves off, holding the withered photograph, the dog-eared pamphlet, the crumbling letter, the fragile diary. ![]() An edited version of the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s event “ Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: A Salon in Honor of Saidiya Hartman” on March 4, 2019, featuring Hartman with Daphne Brooks, Aimee Meredith Cox, Macarena Gomez-Barris, and Alexander G. ![]()
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