The essay, “Under The Baobab: the Memory Routes and Contested Histories of a St. Croix Tree”, was shared. In this collaborative essay the Virgin Islands Studies Collective used a large baobab tree on the western end of St. Croix to think through historical record-keeping and community memory-making. Over 300 years old, the tree is a living archive, a monument to thorue enslaved Africans who brought its seeds with them during the Danish colonial period. We will look at this tree as a contested memory space with each member of the collective entering from the position of her discipline. As an anthropologist Dr. Tami Navarro will employ ethnographic methods to speak to the small group of Virgin Islanders who advocated for the placement of a bronze plaque to memorialize the oral history of the women who were burned at the tree during the 1878 Fireburn labor revolt, complicating official historical records which do not describethis event in this way. As a philosopher Dr. Hadiya Sewer will do a phenomenological examination of the discourses surrounding the baobab tree and the commemorative plaque.  They will chart a de-anthropocenic approach to studying blackness and ontology in colonial contexts. Writer Tiphanie Yanique will write a speculative fictional account of what occurred at the tree in a metatextual manner, unfolding how writers use archival gaps and contradictions to create real stories. Visual artist La Vaughn Belle will reflect on her video work “strange gods before thee” (2020) which begins at the tree and how embodied rituals create alternate spaces of memory. Together the essay will argue for the existence of multiple “truths” and insist on the value of multiple ways of seeing and remembering.