As a special guest contribution to the Black Life Newsletter, Nan Collymore shares the essay “Haptic Cloth. A Film.” Collymore is a mother, interdisciplinary artist, and independent scholar. Her recent projects include founding L’habillement, Dress I and II, publishing There Are Black People In The Future with Alisha B. Wormsley, editing The Black Aesthetic Season III: Black Interiors, and serving as contributing editor to both Contemporary & and The September Issues.