Phanuel Antwi is Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies. He is an artist, teacher and organiser concerned with race, poetics, movements, intimacy and struggle. He works with text, dance, film and photography to intervene in artistic, academic and public spaces. He is a curator, activist and associate professor at the University of British Columbia.

'A necessary book about holding, being held and the hold(s) of the past. Playful, vulnerable, ever acute - Antwi gets down with the funk of language, history, and bodies to make fugitive sense of modernity as anti-Black grammar and embrace.'

• Be HeldA Scroll Scene of Subjection, Choreography of Care Racial EmbraceHold. Womb. Tomb. Spoon.The Dead Can Love Us TooGrammars of the Black AtlanticBearingAttraction and AbjectionContinuous Present State Cuddling Loved to Death Theater, Hustling, Embrace It’s Almost Time Fugitive (Solidarity (Betrayals)) Acknowledgments Notes

Phanuel Antwi is Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies. He is an artist, teacher and organiser concerned with race, poetics, movements, intimacy and struggle. He works with text, dance, film and photography to intervene in artistic, academic and public spaces. He is a curator, activist and associate professor at the University of British Columbia.

'A necessary book about holding, being held and the hold(s) of the past. Playful, vulnerable, ever acute - Antwi gets down with the funk of language, history, and bodies to make fugitive sense of modernity as anti-Black grammar and embrace.'

• Be HeldA Scroll Scene of Subjection, Choreography of Care Racial EmbraceHold. Womb. Tomb. Spoon.The Dead Can Love Us TooGrammars of the Black AtlanticBearingAttraction and AbjectionContinuous Present State Cuddling Loved to Death Theater, Hustling, Embrace It’s Almost Time Fugitive (Solidarity (Betrayals)) Acknowledgments Notes

Phanuel Antwi is Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies. He is an artist, teacher and organiser concerned with race, poetics, movements, intimacy and struggle. He works with text, dance, film and photography to intervene in artistic, academic and public spaces. He is a curator, activist and associate professor at the University of British Columbia.

'A necessary book about holding, being held and the hold(s) of the past. Playful, vulnerable, ever acute - Antwi gets down with the funk of language, history, and bodies to make fugitive sense of modernity as anti-Black grammar and embrace.'

• Be HeldA Scroll Scene of Subjection, Choreography of Care Racial EmbraceHold. Womb. Tomb. Spoon.The Dead Can Love Us TooGrammars of the Black AtlanticBearingAttraction and AbjectionContinuous Present State Cuddling Loved to Death Theater, Hustling, Embrace It’s Almost Time Fugitive (Solidarity (Betrayals)) Acknowledgments Notes