Christopher Santo Domingo Chan and Brittney Frantece were selected as our 2023-2023 CLIP fellows. This series, “Dreams and Nightmare: Shapes and Shadows in Theory,” investigates dreams and nightmares as embodied sites of social struggle: where we are both haunted by the otherwise unrepresentable residue of historical and contemporary trauma, colonialism, and violence, but where we also workshop and experiment with alternatives. Informed by Black feminist traditions and the Queer of Color critique, we ask how dreams and nightmares alike rearrange our senses of time, memory, place, space, self, story, and possibility. These modes challenge Eurocentric epistemic and ontological traditions while offering vital frameworks to make new senses of reality. Our work, inside and outside the academy, converges around questions of race, queerness, and cultural production; here, we promote the multisensory and polysemic ways dreamers envision and make new worlds. This cluster advances creation that is informed, inspired, and in response to critical and challenging ideas; This radical praxis is a process of drafting dreams and imaginations into material action. To this end, these courses are organized around workshop models that ask students to explore a creative project supported by class readings, critical inquiry, and close and encouraging feedback. Supporting students through this process with activities that culminate in an original work, we aim to cultivate more incisive and brave questions, creative and intellectual risk-taking, and classroom communities that prioritize care and growth.