Focusing on the occupied protest in Capitol Hill, Seattle, this text argues that antiracist and Black liberatory protests work to disrupt white supremacist institutions that have been \"normalized...and rendered unproblematic\" (hooks and Mesa-Bains 2018, 61). This disruption did not cease with the destruction of the occupied protest in July of 2020, but rather continues in the memories and actions of those involved with it. Through various methods of engaging with art, responding to police and state violence, and formalizing the practice of memory, the efforts of the occupied protest to envision beyond the everyday harm of systemic racism continues even after the tangible spaces symbolizing these politics disappear. This project in itself aims to fit within efforts to mark antiracist and Black liberatory efforts as ongoing, even after the flashpoint moment of the George Floyd protests has ended.
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