049. New Terms and Conditions with Ravon Ruffin Feliz

For The Worldbuilders

Recently I had the absolute honor of being in conversation with Seeda School alumni, Ravon Ruffin Feliz. Ravon who goes by she/they is a cyber anthropologist, writer, educator and founder of Citation Studio, a Black feminist experimental thinking studio mapping the possibilities of computing, archives, and nature with/on/for/at the internet. Born in Chicago, now based in the Bronx — she has worked in the arts and culture sector for 10+ years, tending to public engagements with art, archives and the internet, URL and AFK (away from keyboard).

Ravon is also the steward of the “Glossary for an Anti-Colonial Black feminist Critical Media Ecology”, tenderly referred to as the ABC Glossary as a short hand. They are building the glossary inside “New Terms and Conditions”, a newsletter they launched in January of this year.

In the Preface of New Terms and Conditions, they speak clearly stating, this is “an attempt to define terms like cloud, seed, garden, and data, that make visible the exploitation on our land, our resources, and our communities, and to address the exploitations that are hiding in plain-sight. and even more so, begin to liberate these terms from the lips of our oppressors.”

Inside this Episode:

• Journey of Transformation
• Embodying Citational Practice
• Glossary as Black Method
• Notes on an Ecological Approach
• The Archive is Alive

Resources:

• Follow Ravon’s Studio: Citation Studio
• Follow Ravon on Instagram: @arayveeohen
• Subscribe to Ravon’s Newsletter: New Terms and Conditions
• Connect to Ravon’s Are.na: Follow Their Research Channels
• Subscribe to Ravon’s YouTube Channel: The Moody Minimalist
• Download Seeda School’s ⁠Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself⁠
• Subscribe to ⁠Seeda School's Newsletter for weekly essay and podcast releases straight into your inbox
• Follow Ayana on Instagram: ⁠@ayzaco⁠
• Follow Seeda School on Instagram: ⁠@seedaschool