My favorite part of this reading was my ability to cocreate knowledge with Lara. This is a very complicated text. One that places a great responsibility on the audience to engage with, navigate, and theorize alongside the writing. It is this task that I believe helps me to best understand the spatio-temporal compressions and expansions Lara claims are an essential part of queer freedom : black sovereignty. This text does not seek to practice strict chronological and tangential explanations of themes. Instead it embodies the theories it presents.
Thinking about the liminality of colonization, I can apply these concepts of spatio-temporality. I ask myself, how does the colonization of the past affect the present day? Furthermore, can colonization have a set start and end date and how do I limit liberation by delegating colonization as an act that happened in the past rather than a past-present-future activity?