may we dream and design felt futures: where our creative being and practice can feel the sensations of care, intimacy, and liberation

may we dream and design felt futures: where our creative being and practice can feel the sensations of care, intimacy, and liberation is a manifestation of intuitive writings. In this collection—part guide, part experimental memoir—Denise Shanté offers glimpses into what she refers to as “felt futures” by inviting you to experience a creative social practice that embodies sensorial ways of being, knowing, relating, and making. Each book journeys through four pathways of narrative that connect us with the presence of felt futures, speaking from the spirit of creative lineages, abundant creativity, rituals, and devotions. They take different forms, from communal storytelling and letter writing to mimicry and fragmentary writing. Within these forms, you’re invited into the futures she’s feeling—futures where we can deepen our creative politic and our care praxis, trust sensorial knowledge amid systems dependent upon our disembodiment, and tend to the expansive, (dis)abled bodies from which we create. The books weave visuals, frameworks, inquiries, prompts, and quotes and leave moments to fully feel the futures we desire so that our dreams for care, intimacy, and liberation can come through.