Step 1: Donate to Joy Powell here or here (sugg. donation $40)

Step 2: Register for “New Afrikan Counter-Mapping” here

This workshop will explore the methodologies and conceptual frameworks used to shape The Abolitionist Atlas, a tool and periodical that counter-maps abolitionist New Afrikan movement work across the Black Belt.

We will discuss how black people have historically developed counter-mapping practices against the backdrop of u.s imperialist violence and use New Afrikan counter-geographies as a spatial framework for mapping, visualizing and articulating decolonial territorial imaginaries.

Participants will also learn approaches to self-printing and publishing their own booklets, based on methods shared in the workshop. Free mailed copies of the Atlas will be available upon request.

All proceeds from this workshop will go to the Free Joy Powell Campaign, a community-driven effort to liberate incarcerated Black freedom fighter Joy Powell from prison.

Bria Miller is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher, and organizer whose practice spans urbanism, critical geography, and visual culture. In 2025, after completing her graduate studies in Architecture and Urban Design, she began to carry out her project, The Abolitionist Atlas, traveling across the Deep South to connect with New Afrikan organizers, practitioners and researchers engaged in self-determining work. Drawing on black fugitive and counter-mapping traditions, she developed a method of translating their knowledge, practices, and the political-economies shaping their work into the first edition of the Atlas.