TBA: tbd: to be diasporic un determined
“Darkening” refers to the participation of people traditionally understood as “dark” in the formation of their own identities through imagination of internal belonging and oceanic crossing. It invokes a process or sense of envelopment, if not doom, in the ubiquitous effects of power, and simultaneously a sense of hope for a future where such thick, instrumental, and infinite selections become so full as to become ineffectual—the mirrors darkened, possibility reborn.
— Stephanie Leigh Batiste, Darkening Mirrors