Otherworldy Videos: Revolution

Saidah Baba Talibah premiered her new video today for “Revolution.”

Behind the Mask: D. Denenge Akpem

Here is another segment. Its focus will be fashion – hair, clothes, carnival costumes, etc. First, D. Denenge Akpem’s performance-lecture on Afrofuturism and fashion, “Constructing Future Forms.” Update: Read her two articles from Chicago Arts Magazine Constructing Future Forms: Afro-Futurism and Fashion in Chicago, Part I Constructing Future Forms: Afro-Futurism and Fashion in Chicago, Part […]

Art of This World: Janel Jefferson

Artist Janel Jefferson talks about her use of photographs from the 19th and 20th century to create colorful and haunting painted portraits that give life to the past and show that records are like gifts from the past to the present and future. The video is from the Juneteenth Jamboree site on Kiru. Listen to […]

The My-Stery: The Gaze in 2012

Rockwell- Somebody’s Watching Me With the recent death of Rodney King, I wanted to reflect on the gaze or surveillance in our society and how it has manifested itself during this year so far. The gaze has implied that the bodies of others, like Black bodies, should always be under scrupulous examination because we are […]

Moving on the Wires: Beasts of the Southern Wild

The southern United States is known for many natural and man-made disasters. From the Mississippi Flood of 1927, which inspired the song “When the Levee Breaks,” to Hurricane Katrina to the BP oil spill, the South has experienced several apocalyptic events. Not only that, our entire world is dealing with rapidly changing climates, melting icecaps […]

Moving On the Wires: Alien Bodies’ Logo Contest

Via Alien Bodies: The 2013 Emory Alien Bodies: Race, Space, Sex and the African Diaspora Conference is pleased to announce a Logo Contest! The conference explores such questions as: how do we begin to understand the ways in which race, space, and sex configure “the alien” within spaces allegedly “beyond” markers of difference? In doing […]

The My-Stery: Musing About Native Steampunk

I was going to do a post on how all our creations are technology (and even we are in a sense technology), and how that applies to definitions of afrofuturism, but I will probably do later. First, I will like to reblog a post I read on tumblr from Moniquilliloquies about Indigenous American cultures and […]

Moving On The Wires: My First Blog Nomination!

I received a nomination for the Kreativ Blogger Award! Thank you to Balogun from Chronicles of Harriet. Check him out! He is a speculative fiction author, including works of steampunk and Swords and Soul genres, and he blogs about various speculative fiction cultures. As per the Kreativ Blogger Award rules I must: Thank my nominator and […]

Otherwordly Videos: Rules Aren’t Real

Nasimiyu – “Rules Aren’t Real” “Go Forth Without Fear”

Modern Griots Review: Marley/Ancestral Chants

Last Saturday, I packed my day with watching both the Marley film about reggae singer Bob Marley and Something Positive‘s annual show Ancestral Chants at Long Island University in Brooklyn. Thus, I am doing a combined kind of review of the two since they both were about Afro-Caribbean cultures. First, the Marley film. As we […]