Nirel JonesMitchell is a writer and investigator of how emotions could feel without racialized capitalistic political institutions. More specifically, she employs womanist wondering in asking the interpersonal, intrapersonal, and contrabinary question: what does relationship look like when black folk get free? For the Free People Project, she helps with digital archiving: deep note-taking the A Year of Black Joy project which centers the brilliance of black women and femmes embodying black liberatory joy. She is a Bay Area-type perfectionist and Los Angeles-type dreamer who attempts to embody the Alexis Pauline Gumbs quote, “Harriet Tumban said ‘my people are free’ in the middle of slavery,” which is a fancy way of saying she has always been interested in infusing notions of “what is” with “what can be.”