Both raw and disciplined, ENGAGE discusses spirituality, environmentalism, security, freedom, autonomy, Indigenous cultures, anti-Blackness, family, and liberatory pedagogy. It is an invitation to dismantle colonial oppressions and a toolkit to build a future free from the harmful legacies of racism and genocide.

ENGAGE includes contributions from under-platformed writers from diverse political perspectives. It emphasises the role of non-academic as well as academic collaborators who function as stewards of progressive and radical projects that seek to build a libertory future.

'This “counter-archive” is essential reading for those of us working in the university and inside institutions that help the state wage war. The students, faculty (bus drivers and librarians), cultural workers, parents, and organizers send us dispatches from their specific locations of struggle. The conversations—sometimes direct, sometimes oblique—are examples of how we talk to each other under institutional surveillance and subject to the reins of philanthropic funding. While the conversations are informed by histories of Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous struggle, they unfold in unexpected ways and in the real time of our perilous and shifting grounds. These are conversations to turn and return to'

'A diverse collection of urgent dialogs on the past, present, and future of rebellious Indigenous and Black life in a world structured by genocide'

'Joy James has given us a gift. Community-engaged and dialogic, ENGAGE brings us a powerful set of conversations that are rich with all the complexities entailed by diverse and yet intertwined histories of oppression and multiple visions for the future within and between these communities. A must-read for anyone concerned with Indigenous and Black liberation'

Joy James, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College, is a political philosopher who works with organizers. She is editor of The Angela Y. Davis Reader; Imprisoned Intellectuals; and co-editor of The Black Feminist Reader. James's recent books include In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner; and Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon. James is editor of Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies.