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In this podcast, researcher, writer and curator Tania Safura Adam takes us inside her research processes and strategies to revive the individual and collective memories of blackness in Spain: an urgent and tenacious writing operation based on fragments that are often scattered and disjointed. The public dissemination of these silenced and ignored narratives has the power to make us feel uncomfortable, and in this discomfort lies the potential for transformation. We also talk about gaps in the archive, about potential archives, and about what it means to take responsibility for this. And on a more personal note, about what motherhood and child rearing in the diaspora means for her and for many other women.

We dig up some unreleased fragments from our conversation with researcher, writer, and curator Tania Safura Adam. Here, she reflects on the inner drive in the face of injustice, writing as a form of healing, and the need to protect one’s own time. We also talk about the personal and collective implications of assimilation, denial, and trauma within the context of the African diaspora and migrant life, sharing family experiences that connect Mozambique, Lisbon, and Madrid. Kizombando the past, she also shares how music, literature, and art help to recognize what one tries to forget: to understand and share experiences.

In this podcast, we talk with Jas and T.L. Cowan, coauthors of Heavy Processing (2024), about their early ambition to digitally chart every TFQ cabaret in existence, beginning with Cabaret Commons. From there, we explore the dialectics between computational logics and digital archives, and move into the thick of digital research ethics. We delve into risks, refusals, feelings, ephemeralities, and intimacies. Their deep humor and care animate a self-reflexive, collaborative approach to knowledge-making – one that generously shares what forms their past trajectories in relation to the temporal crises of today and the ethics of time itself.