Trans Inst Br Geogr. 2021;00:1–5. | 1 wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/tran Lioba Hirsch: Naya, I would like to start by expressing how grateful I am that we got to work on this intervention together! I have learnt so much from you and the other contributors throughout the last few months and our discus- sions have nourished me and left me with a sense of joy and calm that I don’t often feel in academia. This interven- tion challenges how geography as a (post)colonial discipline and one shaped by whiteness sees, understands, and relates to Black geographies, but certainly for me it turned into a far greater gift: of working and sharing a space with Black geographers (remotely) for close to a year; an intervention into our relative isolation, a prolonged ‘meeting of minds’ (hooks, & hall, 2017). This editorial builds on similar trans-Atlantic dialogues between US-American and Black British/European writers and thinkers, such as the conversation between hooks and Hall or Audre Lorde’s work with Afro-German women in the 80s and 90s. As in hooks and Hall’s dialogue, this editorial reflects how we learned from and with one another and similarly centred a Black multi-dimensional and polyvalent narrative. Naya Jones: Lioba, sharing your gratitude back to you! In the process of co-editing, we’ve reimagined academic writing together as co-editors and with contributors. Our periodic virtual meetings with everyone from the Intervention felt more like healing circles as we read and reflected on each other’s works-in-progress. In the spirit of healing justice, I mean they offered spaces for us to not only share our work but also to be explicit about how our work involves our everyday lives as Black scholars. This is also why opening the Intervention with dialogue feels aligned. I appreciate how dialogue allows us to witness each other and theorize together. As you and I are in dialogue, those reading this, become part of this witnessing and theorizing, too. There is something intimate about us being in dialogue that resonates with the intimate geographies reflected in this Intervention. And how timely. How necessary! I’m based in Santa Cruz, California, and you are based in London. We started the Intervention just as more Black Lives Matter protests took root in the United States following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many more, and as protests and marches against anti-blackness and police brutality emerged worldwide. The coronavirus pandemic Received: 24 November 2020 | Revised: 18 May 2021 | Accepted: 26 July 2021 DOI: 10.1111/tran.12488 THEMED INTERVENTION Incontestable: Imagining possibilities through intimate Black geographies Lioba A. Hirsch 1 | Naya Jones 2 The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2021 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 1 Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 2 Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA Correspondence Lioba A. Hirsch, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. Email: lioba.hirsch@liverpool.ac.uk Funding information There are no funders to report for this submission. Abstract This editorial takes the form of a dialogue between the editors of this Themed Intervention on Black intimate geographies. It frames the voices of the Black geographers from the USA and the UK assembled here as speaking to both the incontournability of anti-blackness as a political reality and to Black ways of knowing, imagining, and dreaming our presents and our futures against and be- yond resistance to anti-blackness. The editorial celebrates the diasporic collabo- ration on which this Intervention is grounded and points to the possibilities of Black life and knowledge production. KEYWORDS Black diaspora, intimate geographies, resistance, antiblackness, Black Geographies