Loophole of Retreat in Hyperallergic

“Several presentations were beautiful, and beautifully moving as well. Negarra A. Kudumu began her talk in a state of heightened emotion. She attempted to discuss how freedom, examined historically in the African continent among colonized people, was intimately connected with love and self-regard. She recounted in a halting voice, often on the verge of breaking into tears, how a certain branch of Catholic thought — the Antonian ministry — took hold in the Congo, and within it indigenous people could come to understand what Toni Morrison had defined as the essence of freedom: You are made free in order to make others free. At one point in the presentation, when it seemed like she was having difficulty continuing, a friend in the audience, Tina Campt, went onstage and put her hands on Kudumu’s back and shoulders, supporting her emotionally and physically, demonstrating what the work of hands can do.”

- Seph Rodney, PhD for Hyperallergic

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