Conference session

War. Ethnic Cleansing. Climate collapse. Displacement. Colonial violence. These pressures converge, and they leave us with a question the Summit calls an inflection point: how do we respond when the weight of extractive capitalism, racial hierarchy, and colonial legacy all land at once? This session looks to anticolonial rage as one answer. We draw on Myisha Cherry’s The Case for Rage, and on bell hooks’ writing about black rage. Across these thinkers, rage emerges as something other than symptomatic. It is refusal. It is presencing. It is a way of making worlds when existing ones are built on dispossession. From Gaza to Lebanon to Iran, from climate refugees to communities shaped by ongoing coloniality, rage is what rises from people who have been expected to stay quiet. Cherry calls it essential to anti‑racist struggle. hooks, following Morrison, calls it a form of subjectivity that colonizers refuse to hear. We treat it as knowledge, as method, as a way of gathering. This session is for scholars, artists, and practitioners working across cultural theory, critical race analysis, Black feminist thought, decolonial, anticolonial and postcolonial studies, queer and trans theory, and creative practices from performance to visual art to community-based work. You will leave with sharper tools for understanding rage as a decolonial force, practical ways to bring it into your work, and connections across disciplines and borders.