Towns named after on Santeria gods and goddesses in Miami. Supernaturals forced to live in caged cities and branded with symbols. A city of fairies, vampires, trolls, shapeshifters, witches, mermaids, and pixies as pets. A love triangle and a romance between college revolutionaries who are fighting against social system hierarchy. A serial killer detective story. […]
Read More Modern Griots Review: Kenya Wright’s “Fire Baptized”Thanks to Melanated Writers Collective for quoting the poem today. As a writer, I love the sensuality of this poem; how the two are creating themselves and the world around them in writing. Like two deities writing themselves into existence. Recreation Coming together it is easier to work after our bodies meet paper and pen […]
Read More Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Audre Lorde’s “Recreation”Freshlyground – “Take Me to the Dance” Pegasus Warning – “Try So Hard” Directed by Wangechi Mutu
Read More Otherworldly Videos: The Love in the Dance*Black Science Fiction Film Festival on February 7th in Atlanta, Georgia. Watch clip below: *The Alien Bodies: Race, Space and Sex in the African Diaspora Conference will be taking place at Emory University on February 8-9 in Atlanta Georgia. Sadly, I won’t be there, but at least it will be recorded for later viewing. Also, […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: Black Science Fiction Festival, Alien Bodies, Blitz the Ambassador and The Last Poets, NYU Black Surrealism Conference…Rho-cass from DeviantART. “Pseudospring” “The idea behind it — biomechanics. Maybe she’s some cybernetic organism that draws energy from ‘energy springs’ that crop up in the form of these weird ‘cyber trees.’”
Read More Art of This World: Rho-CassAfter reading Ebony’s “7 Black Writers You Should Know,” I wanted to highlight a couple of them in a post. Besides technology reporter Jenna Wortham and her Girl Crush Zine, and Uzoamaka Maduka attempt to revilitalize the American literary magazine with The American Reader. the two writers that stood out to me were Kyla Marshell and […]
Read More Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Kyla Marshell and Jason ParhamUltraSol – Love and Enduring Perception South African director Phetogo Tshepo Mahasha‘s trailer for latest animated short film. The trailer alone looks epic!
Read More Otherworldly Videos: UltraSol TrailerWhat does it mean to be a “Black Futurist?” Writer and media and technology strategist Kwan Booth gives a glimpse into it as part of the Black Futurist Collective, editing Black Futurists Speak, an anthology including a doctrine, essay, short stories and excerpts, and poetry. The collection was put together after multimedia literary performance took […]
Read More Modern Griots Review: Black Futurists SpeakFunkadelic/Wefunk International (Clip Payne and 420 FUNK MOB) – Eve of the Emperor Although George Clinton was forced to give away some of his legendary music to settle a debt, he and Funkadelic released some new music. Playing off the “emperor has no clothes” with the “emperor has no clones,” funkadelic is still funkatizing the […]
Read More Modern Griots Reviews: Music To Space Out To…Yesterday, I watched Isaac Hayes’ Unsung on TV One and one thing that stood out to me about Hayes besides his musical talent was his fashion sense. The man who co-wrote the superhero lover songs like “Hold On, I’m Coming” and “Soul Man” for Sam and Dave, had his own particular smooth style. For a […]
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Sherese Francis 