Journal Prompts





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  • ༄Where/How can you be responsible in your preparedness?

  • ༄ Where is your grit in adaptation, creating anew? Are you prepared for when the clouds come?

  • ༄ What tools did your ancestors instill inside you, to support you in change?

  • ༄ Who can you call on to learn how to swim in the deep/end


What is in your Go Bag?

  • ༄ In the words and inspiration of Lauren Oya Olamina from Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, what will you keep on your person? 

  • ༄ Create a list of tools that you may carry on your person when it’s time to go, the water gets high. 


  • ༄ In what shape do you steward?






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BIBLIOGRAPHY


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Chenier, C. (2020, June 19). Jean Saint Malo: The man, maroon, & martyr. NOIR ’N NOLA. https://www.noirnnola.com/post/2018/07/30/jean-saint-malo-the-man-the-maroon-the-martyr

Diouf, S. A. (2016). Slavery’s exiles: The story of the American maroons. New York University Press.

Groth, B. (n.d.). Juan San Maló. 64 Parishes. https://64parishes.org/entry/juan-san-malo

Maroons and their communities in the Americas. Politika. (n.d.). https://www.politika.io/en/notice/maroons-and-their-communities-in-the-americas

More than a runaway: Maroons in louisiana . TriPod. (2019, May 27). https://tripodnola.org/episodes/more-than-a-runaway-maroons-in-louisiana/

Paper Monuments, P. F.-C. (n.d.). San malo maroons. New Orleans Historical. https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/1403

Pasajs: Passages for san malo. South Writ Large RSS. (n.d.). https://southwritlarge.com/articles/pasajs-passages-for-san-malo/

Price, R. (1996). Maroon societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas. Johns Hopkins University Press.

San Malo’s maroons and manilamen in Louisiana: Part One. Lagniappe and Other Essentials. (2013, May 28). https://lagniappenola.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/san-malos-maroons-and-manilamen-in-louisiana-part-one/

Sayers, D. O. (2016). Desolate place for a defiant people: The Archaeology of Maroons, indigenous Americans, and enslaved laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp. University Press of Florida.

St. Malo Maroon Colony. A People’s Guide. (2021, August 23). https://apeoplesguide.org/sites/malo-maroon/

YouTube. (2023, September 24). Bayou Sauvage: An urban wildlife refuge in New Orleans. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKmO9DIiN-w&t=128s

YouTube. (2018, July 20). Dionne Brand: The Shape of Language YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_HdOZIFEl0

YouTube. (2019, April 2). An Evening with Torkwase Dyson & Françoise Vergès. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVHsN6LaV4Y





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