[magnitude + bond] Reading Group – Collaboratory for Black Poiesis

Join the Collaboratory for Black Poiesis for a multimedia series of slow engagement with black cultural production & community-led ‘maker-thinker’ sessions.

Between Fall 2025 and Winter 2026, the initiative’s reading group, [magnitude + bond] will be reading Toni Morrison’s collection of essays & speeches on Western politics, Black culture, social rights, labour & autonomy, The Source of Self-Regard.

In Winter and Spring 2026, take up Fred Moten’s and Stefano Harney’s The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study Minor Compositions. The writers offer necessary primers on black study, culture, co-thinking, and dialogic imagination that has inspired many (whether they’ve read them or not). These are all worth slow, deep engagement for insights into navigating the present conjuncture.

From October to May, each session will begin with a read aloud from Cyrée Jarelle Johnson’s second major poetry collection, Watchnight, anchoring gatherings with the power of contemporary Black trans poetics and root/memory work.

NOTE: This group is limited to 8–10 participants, with a commitment of at least 2 out of 3 sessions per semester. No UofT or other institutional affiliation is required.