Art is a powerful catalyst for change. Regardless of the form, art has a unique capacity to build awareness, understanding, and solidarity for ideas and movements. 

Louisiana born and Chicago raised artist, activist, educator, historian, and institution builder Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs  (November 1, 1915 – November 21, 2010) poured her interconnected and multimodal advocacy into her praxis of care, love, and visions of freedom for Black people.  

Recent publication Our Girl Tuesday: An Unfurling for Dr. Margaret T.G Burroughs presents a collection of essays, interviews, poetry, art and archives that honor and reflect the immense influence Dr. Margaret T. G. Burroughs had on the political and cultural life of Chicago and the lives of people she met. The contributors to the Zine include artists, poets, writers, educators, activists, curators, and scholars who pulled from existing archives, gathered new materials and created new works to be entered into the living archive of Dr. Burroughs. In this way, this collection iterates the impact of Dr. Burroughs and her politics of culture, care, freedom and love for Black people. A special section of the publication includes an Unfurling, a social practice introduced to this project by Skyla Hearn whereby people, as liberatory memory workers, pull materials from existing archives and share what those materials mean to them.  

On November 13, join co-authors and co-editors Tempestt Hazel, Skyla S. Hearn, and Sarah Ross for a conversation on the influence and impact of Dr. Burroughs and the power of memory, remembrance, activism and archives.