In this episode, artist and PhD researcher, Rudy Loewe, and artist, Sharon Walters, discuss a range of archives from the Royal Museums Greenwich collection that focus on the impacts of the colonial gaze in historic portraiture. Together, Rudy and Sharon explore the concept of critical fabulation, coined by Saidiya Hartman, to reclaim and reimagine the lives of historic Black people, mostly those who were enslaved. They discuss the violence of museum spaces and archives and how researchers can insert care into the archive as well as caring for themselves. This episode is a beautifully honest and open discussion into how creativity and queer research methods can provide access to and empower the histories of Black African and Caribbean communities.