# Event Details - **Event Name**: Scrap Theory: Mali D. Collins in Conversation - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for an intriguing talk with author Mali D.Collins as she chats about her book, "Scrap Theory".About this EventWe’re excited to host author Mali D. Collins on February 5th to discuss her book, Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination.In her debut, full length text, Mali considers the histories of state-sanctioned maternal dispossession and accents the importance of the creative & documentary work by contemporary visual and literary artists as an essential tool to shift our understandings of fragmentation and caregiving.Join the Clifton House as we explore how art-making provides a counterpoint to the historically ephemeral and violent acts of the redactive archive toward a history that celebrates the timelessness of Black Women’s memory work.Registration is open, join us for this perspective-shifting event.Event begins: 6:00PMAbout the Author:Mali Collins is a creative writer and doula living in Baltimore, MD. Her poetry and creative essays have been featured in SALT: Contemporary Art + Feminism, The HAUNT Journal of Art, A Gathering Together, and in edited anthologies from Demeter Press and University of Mississippi Press. She recently finished her tenure as a poet-in-residence with Yellow Arrow Publishing where she developed her further chapbook on the themes of kinship and separation. Since 2021, she has been an assistant professor of African & African Diaspora Studies at American University in Washington, D.C where she teaches courses on the politics of black motherhood and contemporary Black feminist literature and art. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/baltimore/scrap-theory-mali-d-collins-in-conversation/100001980131696207 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Baltimore - **state**: MD - **country**: United States - **location**: The Clifton House, Talbot Road, Baltimore, MD, USA - **lat**: 39.3154275 - **long**: -76.6894774 - **full address**: The Clifton House, Talbot Road, Baltimore, MD, USA, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Scrap Theory: Mali D. 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