Former Seattle Civic Poet Anastacia-Reneé will talk with author Frank B. Wilderson III about Afro-pessimism: an intellectual movement that "theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery." Press materials state, "Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression, [Wilderson] asserts that the social construct of slavery—as seen through pervasive, anti-black subjugation and violence—is hardly a relic of the past, but an almost necessary force in modern civilization."