Thread by @DrIbram

Thrilled to announce that I’ve signed a multi-genre development agreement w/ @BOATROCKER. The deal will help launch my new production shingle #MaroonVisions & develop projects w/ Boat Rocker’s scripted, unscripted, and kids & family divisions. 1/4

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#MaroonVisions is named for formerly enslaved people of African descent who formed islands of free communities with indigenous peoples amid vast seas of enslavement in the Americas. We cannot create another world if we do not envision it first, like Maroons. 2/4

From the Carolinas to the Caribbean to Brazil, the Maroons radically imagined and freed and created anew. They were an existential threat to slavery and racism, and thereby constantly under attack, much like the antiracist society we are striving to build. 3/4

I am committed to producing—and most importantly being a conduit for other creators and thinkers to produce—works of research and art that meet people where they are, that inspires people to transform where they are. #MaroonVisions 4/4

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