Liquid Legacy

This article reflects on a creative and scholarly praxis shaped by the slow, intergenerational demands of black survival. Centering the author's short film 2020AD alongside a gathering of the author's other creative work explores how black life is archived not only through material preservation but through spiritual, corporeal, and speculative practices that refuse institutional logics. Drawing on black feminist metaphysics, this article positions survival as both an archival and corporeal imperative — one that engenders practice and is reiterated through said practice. Through a curvilinear and spiritually attuned methodology, the article examines how familial documentation, ancestral encounters, and the fight for survival converge as points of impact within what Elissa Blount Moorhead calls a slow archive, which unfolds across time and space, refusing legibility and linearity in favor of recursive, relational modes of care, while articulating a practice that reimagines survival as inheritance, intervention, and ongoing black study.