Maroon’s Motherboard: Archives and Autonomous Networks for Free Black Futures
12-2pm Sunday, October 11th, 2026
at Paul Robeson House Museum, 4949 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19139
Presented by Memory Workers Guild
Maroon’s Motherboard is a workshop assembling micro-mobile archives and autonomous networks for free Black futures. Facilitated by Wynn Eakins and Khalil Abdellah, the workshop is presented as part of Collective Futures by Memory Workers Guild, in collaboration with the Paul Robeson House & Museum.
About Memory Workers Guild
The Memory Workers’ Guild (MWG) is a decentralized collective of friends, peers, and community members dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and production of Black cultural legacies, experiences, and memories. We are artists, archivists, event planners, non-profit staffers, program coordinators, book collectors, DJs, dancers, and more.
The Guild exists to create a better present and future for the legacies of Black cultural workers that are often buried behind the nature of our care. While members engage in cross-cultural work in solidarity with all oppressed groups, we center Black, queer, and femme perspectives as both clarifying principles and protective boundaries against the anti-Black racial, sexual, cis-hetero, and class violence that appears all too regularly in our lines of work.
Whether in museums, schools, community centers, non-profits, neighborhoods, and otherwise, there’s a bitter irony many of us have experienced that our deep care for cultural preservation has led to a dismissal of our needs by institutional powers and sometimes even ourselves. In the case of the former, MWG serves as a platform to leverage a collective effort against these painful dismissals, a potential to fight together against our shared working grievances. In the case of the latter, MWG serves as a home base for the replenishment of our tools of care, joy, culture, and energy.