Charting Freedom: Black Counter-Cartography Under Constraint

Mapping Liberation When Maps Were Forbidden

My eyes take several minutes to adjust when the last light of my campfire fades. The darkness outside Tucson feels absolute at first—then the stars reveal themselves, not as pinpricks but as layers, depths, entire universes of light.

I set up my Celestron telescope beneath this bottomless sky, but before seeking distant galaxies, I instinctively locate P…