On the Creation of “Meet Us Quickly with Your Mercy”
Adapted from a blog posted 10/08/20 on Life As A Modern Dancer In 2018, Jo put out a call for a Black change-maker interested in engaging with a Jewish artist about racial justice and prison abolition. Rahsaan responded. In the more than 3 years we’ve been in collaboration, we’ve written 45 letters, sat down together over vending machine meals in San Quentin’s visiting room twice, and shared over 100 phone calls. We are different from each other. Black and White,