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Ayana Zaire Cotton
Oct 17, 2022
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Seeda School has been on my spirit since 2019. I was living in Brooklyn and working full-time teaching an uninspired software engineering curriculum to a group of incredibly inspired students. I started visioning and dreaming of a transdisciplinary place where writers coded alongside software engineers and biotechnologists sculpted clay alongside ceramicists. A place where we were all bound up through the singing suffering singing suffering singing suffering of Black feminism. It wasn’t until 2020, that the story of Cykofa would emerge and I realized Seeda was an ancient-future ancestor, suspended in a parallel universe waiting for us to remember to build the world we need, with what we have, right where we are. 

Why Seeda School? Why software engineering? Why biotechnology? I ask myself these questions often and imagining how Black feminists might invent new ways of being through bending, breaking, collaborating, dueting, remixing, collaging, weaving, quilting, burning, dancing, lovin…

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