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In MAY and JUNE of 2025, StuffStud.io facilitated: 

FAMILIAR|UNFAMILIAR: Your Black Identity Gets to Define Itself.

 A cohort of 13 Black-Identified participants (The Circle) met weekly to uncover: 

• What stories emerge when we stop translating ourselves for others?
• How to shift Black Stereotype to Black Archetype. 

We engaged in reclaiming, reaming, and storytelling through guided reflection and call and response. 

We identified and investigated 36 Black Archetypes that honor the nuance of Black lives and the communities they create.

JULY-AUGUST

StuffStud.io wrote an interactive tool that featured Black Archetypes from our Circle Discussions. 14 base archetypes that stack, interconnect, and combine to make 37 complete, nuanced archetypes and community roles.

SEPTEMBER -NOVEMBER

We are hosting community celebrations that invite the public to witness this Black Collectivist Archetypal framework. 

Upcoming event:  FAMILIAR | UNFAMILIAR

The Future We See Ourselves is a multi-media interactive vision board that  features contributions from contemporary Black scholars and community leaders answering the questions: 

1. “If everything that you have been advocating for came to pass, what would the future look like? 
2. Who would it benefit, and why? 
3. What do you imagine happened for it to finally come true?”

• SIGN UP HERE TO PARTICIPATE OR NOMINATE SOMEONE TO BE INTERVIEWED

Solana. A Black coming of age story set in Lowcountry South Carolina.

Genre: Magical Realism

Logline: Captured an eerie sense of familiarity, Solana must push through her timid nature when she discovers three golden skeleton keys that might just be  a portal to a beloved place she is told she doesn't belong.

Gameplay is set to be a Dark Souls-lite (sprawling magical narrative with colossal and fantastical creatures, but with adjustable difficulty settings) meets Plants vs Zombies 2 (a strategic interactive combination of magical plants is a large part of the gameplay's defense and combat) meets Dragon Age (fun, chatty party members). 

A Black Speculative fiction with a Majority Black cast from across the diaspora

Mosa is a  Black 19 year old deaf, AuDHDer, emerging reporter, alternative/punk rock baddie with a life sized mechanical corvid named Raven. Raven is Mosa's  personalized disability device.

Setting: Mosa lives in a  fictional Northren costal port city, Winhaven, that is ongoingly being gentrified. Mosa, driven to break into 'real investigative journalism' gets way in over her head navigating the underbelly of Winhaven where secrets rule the streets.

Gameplay: Fast paced Life is Strange/Detriot Become Human (choice based narrative) with an ensemble cast, meets Hitman (stealth, exploration and creative multi-solution strategies) meets, oddly enough --The Sims 2 (character stats, emotions, needs are a part of gameplay).