by George Mason University’s Spring 2025 Dynamic Publishing Class + Educators + Artists
Facilitated by Adriana Monsalve

Printed in Fairfax, VA by George Mason University’s 2025 Dynamic Publishing Class
May 2025
Soft cover with adhesive foto
5.5 x 7 in / 14.5 x 18.5 cm
64 pages, 21 artworks , risograph printed

Edition of 100

Future Fires invites us to collectively investigate the harm we can no longer live within and to consider what must burn down in order to build beyond the cultural framework of white supremacy that we are all born into.

The images and texts presented here were created, printed, and bound in the Spring 2025 collaboration between Homie House Press and George Mason School of Art’s Dynamic Publishing program. Future Fires takes its name and derives its ethos from prophet, icon, and teacher, James Baldwin and his book, The Fire Next Time (1963), in which he writes, “If we—and I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious black, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of others—do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.” James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924; here, we honor his singular voice and celebrate his centennial year.

This work reaches back and pulls forward from publications and collaborators across two previous Homie House Press projects, Femme Frontera (2018), and First Fronteras (2019), in which we revisited the past through fluid migration and embodied ancestral histories. Here, we face the chaos of the current moment and stare into the fires all around us, telling uncomfortable truths in authentic and poetic ways to speak meaning and change into being.