Launch: Virgin Islands Studies Collective (VISCO) Website

Logo of the Virgin Island Studies Collective (VISCO). Navigation bar from their website. A panel with paper artwork describing the collective: Black Feminist collective of artists, scholars, and activists, working within the archives to reimagine Caribbean freedom.

Announcing the launch of the Virgin Islands Studies Collective Website!

Designed by ECDS Digital Publication Specialist Bailey Betik, the VISCO website houses past and ongoing projects from the “group of academics, artists, and activists who are committed to centering the Virgin Islands as a site of inquiry and theorization beyond a notion of utopia or space that is not meaningfully occupied.” As they work within the archives, VISCO reimagines Caribbean freedom through their research, scholarship, fiction, art, and community conversations.

Logo of the Virgin Island Studies Collective (VISCO). Four panels with portraits of Black women.

The website launch comes on the heels of VISCO’s dECOlonial Feelin Symposium organized by Tiphanie Yanique, Emory Professor of English and Creative Writing. Hosted by Emory University and Clark Atlanta University during September 19-21, the symposium highlighted the use of art, poetry, philosophy, storytelling, anthropology, and spiritual practice in imagining, restoring, and creating more equitable worlds for us all. Read a recap of the symposium here.