Hey everyone! I finally have downtime after the Queens Book Festival last Sunday, so I wanted to give you some updates and reminders about projects and other housekeeping stuff: *Did you know I am on PATREON! I updated my page recently and you can visit my page here to find out about what I am […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: Baby I’m Back and With Some News!Welcome back! Here is part 2 of my interview with Louis Chude-Sokei! You can read part 1 here. “…What will matter in the long term is the impact we have on the (Sci-fi) genre itself, not on its packaging or clichés…” 4) Science fiction and fantasy have in the past been centered around European/Western stories […]
Read More Modern Griots Interviews: : Louis Chude-Sokei Part 2Happy New Year!!!!! Welcome back to Futuristically Ancient! Last year, I introduced to you all to the upcoming release of Louis Chude-Sokei’s The Sound of Culture. Well, the book is finally here and I had the privilege to interview Louis about his book and his research. Louis is a truth-speaker and an illusion-breaker who is […]
Read More Modern Griots Interviews: Louis Chude-Sokei Part 1“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds…” – Marcus Garvey/Bob Marley Everyone wants to be free, but most people don’t know how to be free. Either we are physically enslaved and imprisoned, or we are mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and financially in bondage. The latter are mostly invisible chains; it is harder to be conscious of their […]
Read More Modern Griots Reviews: Nichol Bradford’s The SisterhoodLouis Chude-Sokei, the author of The Last ‘Darky‘: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora, will be releasing a new book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. Chude-Sokei, as he has done in his previous work, explores the complexities of race and ethnicity through a Caribbean lens. As someone who calls myself Afro-Caribbean-American, I […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: ‘The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics’Welcome back to part 2 of my interview with Nichol Bradford, author of the novel, The Sisterhood! For a bit of a refresher, please read Part 1! In the second half of the interview, Nichol tells us more about her career and her vision for implementing aspects of video gaming into her work at the Willow Group, where […]
Read More Modern Griots Interviews: Nichol Bradford and The Sisterhood Part 2Next week, Elizabeth Nunez will be read from her memoir, Not for Everyday Use, at the fifth annual ringShout event, which will be the Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event. The event will take place September 16 at 7pm at the Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden in Brooklyn, and also features Bridgett M. Davis (Into the […]
Read More Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Elizabeth Nunez ‘s Books of Caribbean Magic*Become a patron and support my blog and other writing endeavors on Patreon! __________ Experiment: Write a letter to your future self or past self. Try to meditate and astral project yourself into the body of one of those selves before or while you are writing to do so. Can you remember past and future […]
Read More Modern Griots Reviews: Rasheedah Phillips’ “Recurrence Plot and Other Time Travel Tales”Hey everyone! I am back after taking a short needed break. Last week marked the third year that I have been running this blog! Yay! Happy Anniversary! Today I return to highlight a few writers I found out about after reading Bilphena Yahwon’s post on Africa Is Done Suffering, “The Writers I Never Learned About.” […]
Read More Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Catherine Acholonu and Molara OgundipeLast Sunday, I attended Beatbox Botanicals‘ first Harriet’s Apothecary event. Besides having a relaxing and soothing experience, listening to over an hour of sound healing session, learning how to do tinctures and having a divination reading done, I also gathered a few book titles at the event: * African American Folk Healing by Stephanie Mitchem
Read More Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Books for Healing
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