OK, we don’t think we are really ‘beyond form.’ The roots of the word ‘write’ include scoring, scratching, outlining, designing—these are all ways of giving form to or transforming material. We are part of a living earth that is in constant formation, deformation and reformation. We know that we are so much more than what cis-heteropatriarchal colonial capitalist forms say is real, possible and worthy of love. The forms of writing that get the most air are a tiny fraction of what’s alive or possible to remember.
To access life-giving forms, we need to delink from the ones that are offered on the menu of colonial modernity: human-centered understandings of language, single stories, disciplinary institutions and traditions (including but not only literary ones), and cis-heteropatriarchal white supremacist capitalist ableist imperialist models of meaning, language and imagination. Beyond Form offers spaces for gesturing beyond these forms in our writing and in our lives.
