The Call to Space

Part IV: Spatial & Environmental

We are never not reflected in the things we do, the places where we’re seen, or the spaces we participate in. There are lulls to our environments that provoke our desires to change our surroundings, furthering, challenging our and other’s thinking on how much detriment or progress we’re making to our shared spaces.

There are instances, though, where the spaces we occupy make us feel threatened, where safety is “parsed” and “piecemeal,” the mere presence of our bodies forcing us to pay penances for simply existing. How do you then challenge the discourse society murmurs concerning the curvature of your existence? Sheree L. Greer encourages us to pray for movement, to keeping praying for others in our way, and pray we keep running as “[gravities] of unfathomable power” to defy space itself.

–Bre’Anna Bivens, Special Issue Editor