zuri arman is a writer, curator, and cultural organizer from Charlotte, North Carolina. As a PhD candidate in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University, their dissertation project interrogates the function and form of methodological thinking in the modern production of knowledge relative to the autopoetic reproduction of black social captivity in politics and aesthetics. zuri’s poetry and prose is forthcoming or featured in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Ufahamu: Journal of African Studies, a special issue of Interviewing the Caribbean ed. by Carol Boyce Davies, Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies (PM Press), and Burnaway Magazine of Contemporary Art from the South. Additionally, zuri is the co-founder and editor of (de)cypher: dark notes on the culture, a journal and porous thought space bridging politics, art, and black studies (cypheringwhile.black; @darkdecypher).