This introduction appears in the issue “Undisciplined Archives: Dreaming Across Black Geographies” (Volume 10, Number 2). Click here to subscribe and download the entire issue.  When I began my doctoral studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, I took a course titled “Black Geographies” taught by Dr. Camilla Hawthrone. After the quarter concluded, Dr. Hawthorne, a few Black faculty at UCSC, and the Black graduate students from that class formed a study group we called The Black Geographies Lab.1 This is how I first met Dr. Naya Jones, then a new faculty member at UCSC and in our lab. When I started working for The Arrow Journal, I invited the faculty in our lab to consider guest editing an issue in the journal; Naya graciously responded. I came to know Naya, and her work reclaiming Black diasporic botanical knowledge through reconnection to landscapes, in our shared lab studies. We found further connections when Naya formed another “lab” focused on craft, arts, and ecological praxis: “Crafting Black Ecologies.” In this new space I witnessed her …