In this animation, we recall that our power of ownership lies in our hands. Between long nails - not clutching, not gripping, but knowing - we honor the importance of being centered: centering your own point of view, centering your own name, in the face of antiblack colonial erasure.

In this animation, we consider the emptiness of accolades from colonizing institutions. in the background, we see the abundance of nature - and the continual destruction of community. and then suddenly, for the talented tenth, a crown.