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Terresa Moses
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Minneapolis, MN

Terresa Moses

Website
Minneapolis, MN

Terresa Moses is a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown people through art and design. She uses creativity as tools of community activism like her solo exhibition, Umbra, and her community distro project, Stop Killing Black People. She created Project Naptural and co-created Racism Untaught. She has published two books, Racism Untaught and An Anthology of Blackness.

Moses is the Creative Director at Blackbird Revolt and an Associate Professor of Graphic Design and the Director of Design Justice at the University of Minnesota. She is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and currently a PhD candidate in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. She serves on the advisory board of the Black Liberation Lab.


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Abolitionist Design
Saturday, July 13, 2:55 –3:15pm

“[Artists] are here to disturb the peace.” –James Baldwin

As intentional artists, we have a responsibility to disrupt, dismantle, and destroy systems of oppression. We have the power to use design to hold space for the voices of systemically oppressed communities while we work towards a collective future free from violence. Our creative abilities give us the means to collectively share stories in ways that invoke change and inspire action and advocacy for communities that have historically been underrepresented, underserved, and underinvested. Although the concept of abolition isn’t a new one, the 2020 Uprisings provided a reintroduction to this way of thinking to the global public. In my talk, I will explore our role as designers and our duty to engage in design with an abolitionist mindset which I argue is the only means to collective liberation.

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