Afrofuture World-build: Grief

​This Black Futures Month, we gather in the midst of deep uncertainty to launch our 2026 series of Afrofuture World-Builds. As we fight for our freedoms, we also hold fast to vision, using collective imagination to create the systems that can sustain what we dream. This and future gatherings are spaces to heal, to exhale, and to be held as we navigate the intensity of the current political moment.

​As the grief compounds, how do we process it, move through the pain, and give birth to something beautiful?

​Our first world-build centers grief as a powerful force for transformation. Across the African diaspora, grief carries memory, love, and ancestral knowing. What becomes possible when we treat grief not as an end, but as fuel for justice and long-term care?

​How can the power of grief be harnessed to bring about justice—and sustain it?

​Afrofuture World-Builds are collective dreaming spaces where uncertainty is met with imagination, reflection, and shared visioning.

​This is for: Black creatives, organizers, healers, futurists, cultural workers, and anyone longing for space to feel, imagine, and build futures rooted in care and collective liberation.

​Come dream with us.