By Julie Feng

How can scholars and cultural workers create connections that are emergent, complex, and meaningful? In thinking about sites of study like movement art—which can bound us to damaging discourses that naturalize nation-states and borders, but also has the possibility of seeding our imaginations beyond these constructs—it’s necessary to use methodologies that take contradictions and multiple tensions into account. Two key imperatives that underpin a “radical rhetorics” approach to research and community work are desire-based research (Eve Tuck) and emergent strategy (adrienne maree brown). These methodologies center the visions and wisdom of marginalized communities, while holding us all in our multitudes.