In this participatory, discussion-based, interdisciplinary six-week workshop led by Mohammad Shawky Hassan, we will examine the history and applications of “fabulation” as a critical, political, and aesthetic practice, tracing its development from its early use in literary theory to its adaptations by Black scholars, feminist writers, and queer artists as a methodology that emerges precisely where archives are broken, traces are erased, dissident voices are structurally excluded, and futures are foreclosed. Through readings, screenings, and discussions, we will focus on historical moments when archival gaps, erasure tactics, or the failure of the cultural apparatus to fully interpellate its subjects created openings for fabulators to project their desires and imagine selves and worlds that could have been.