Responding to widespread calls for the undoing and transformation of whiteness, this seminar explores the possibilities of antiracist visual activism through the question of whiteness. For “whiteness” is produced within the racialized encounter, at the intersection the instant of recognition (or misrecognition) and the wider historical moment. It is the foundational “object” of racial hierarchy, often represented by a statue. Faced with (Ivy League endorsed) “cultural distance nationalism” and efforts to provoke a “race war,” visual activism seeks instead to find a way to non-sovereign freedom in collective subjectivity. To that end, it takes intersectional cultural encounter and the will to hospitality as its ways of becoming. Such encounters result, as A. Sivanandan put it to white British people, from the process by which: “we are here because you were there.”