Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
Over Our Heads and Sittin' on High: Womanist Spiritual Technologies, Afrofuturism, and the Sound of Sacred Imagination
Author, Lisa Allen, Over My Head: The Power of Ancestral Music to Future the Black Church, will respond to reflections on her new text. Panel will discuss the Womanist-Afrofuturist spiritual technologies of imagination, improvisation, and adaptability function through spiritual practices of liturgy, ritual, preaching, story, myth, Conjure, and time exploration to help communities envision themselves into generative, hope-filled futures.