The UC Santa Cruz Black Geographies Lab began to take shape in the Fall of 2019, when Bre Byrd, Theresa Hice-Fromille, shah noor hussein, Chris Lang, Xafsa Ciise, and Andrea Del Carmen Vasquez were enrolled in Camilla Hawthorne’s Black Geographies graduate seminar. Eager to continue fostering dialogue about Black Geographies as an intellectual, methodological, and political project, they collectively began to envision a space for ongoing, collective study and practice at the intersection of Black Studies and Critical Human Geographies. The Lab in its current form began meeting in the Spring of 2020, and encompasses reading groups, writing workshops, symposia, and poetic modes of embodied and artistic inquiry. We undertake rigorous, interdisciplinary, and transnational inquiry about the spatialities of Blackness, always oriented toward collective liberation for all beings.