"Misbehaving to Make Space" is a short essay about my experience co-founding and organizing the Antiracist Classroom in 2017 that was published in becoming undisciplined, a zine that speaks from/to what it means, feels, and looks like to be Black in relation to the university. The zine includes essays, poetry, art, and photography from fifteen black graduate students and artists.

The zine is a collaborative starting point for a larger intellectual community and project we hope to build. Black scholars have long troubled the anti-Black historical, political, and intellectual foundations of the university. It takes its title from Christina Sharpe’s call for Black scholars to “become undisciplined,” given that academic legibility often requires being “disciplined into thinking through and along lines that reinscribe our own annihilation” (In the Wake, 13). We seek to build a community of graduate students and independent scholars interested in engaging and extending the work of Black visionaries who dodge, evade, improvise around, and funk with architectures of Black suffering — and the many mechanisms that (re)establish and uphold them.