Billion Worlds Lab

There are a billion worlds better than this. They’re ours to create.

View our past and upcoming events

  • Futures of Love & Study

    Futures of Love & Study is an event series and practicum project utilizing discourse and testimony from educational experiences between educators, students, and community members in order to speculate on the future of education. Futures of Love and Study is working in collaboration with George Ferrandi’s Jump!Star project, and will host an event during Richmond’s InLight festival.

  • Broad St. Bullies

    The Broad St. Bullies are a Richmond, VA, cycling group that holds weekly ride-outs, often drawing hundreds of participants. This ethnographic study, conducted by a graduate student researcher, aims to describe the group’s structure and practices in order to understand how it impacts participants.

  • Downlining Disinformation

    Check out this new publication from our Lab’s co-director Frankie Mastrangelo, written in collaboration with Gina Longo: “Downlining Disinformation: How MLM Distributors Use Gendered Strategies for Recruitment and Pastel QAnon Indoctrination” Social Media + Society

  • Data Ecologies

    The data economy is dangerously accelerating, compounding and intensifying environmental and climate-related harms world-wide as well as algorithmically extending neocolonial practices, logics, and hierarchies. Data Ecologies responds to the need for an expansive environmental justice approach to the multiple scales and geographies of harm produced by the data economy.

  • Abolish the University?

    Members of the Abolition University Studies network collectively wrote a pamphlet exploring ways we see and act within and beyond the university with an abolitionist orienation.

  • University Ecologies

    What role(s) do universities play in responding to a climate crisis that they are complicit in accelerating?

  • Cannabis in Consolidation

    How are investors actively narrowing the possibilities for small-scale, social equity businesses to survive and thrive, shutting out ecologically and socially liberatory possibilities?

  • Climate Circles

    Small group discussions meant to provide space for respectful, honest and caring engagement with our relationships with and alienation from the planet-in-crisis.