Out of necessity, out of gratitude, out of respect, out of time —Char Jeré 

In loving memory of Bette Tate-Beaver

A poem of appreciation to Black women and queer people for leading the way. The table disrupts the eurocentric system by replacing, for instance, rare earth metals with astronomical Black people. It's not only a guide of our extraordinary Black history but a meditation of the Universe.

Char Jeré is an Afro-fractalist whose work focuses on non-linear time created within the African diaspora. Their work is centered on the relationship between race and technology in antiquity and throughout modernity. ‘The Periodic Table of Black Revolutionaries' was started while working at the Brooklyn Public Library as a method of teaching youth about the elemental Black, mostly women-identified, figures throughout history.

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