*My blog is on Kindle. If you have a Kindle or anyone you know has one, you can access my blog for $0.99 each month. Here is some places and upcoming events to head to in New York City: *ImageNation, who is one of the major supporters of Middle of Nowhere film, opened a gallery […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: Kindle, Raw Space, CCCADI, A Is for Anansi, Kindred Reading SeriesI just finished reading Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and Other Stories and I want to highlight a passage from her essay “Positive Obsession:” …what good is science fiction to Black people? What good is any form of literature to black people? What good is science fiction’s thinking about the present, the future and the past? What […]
Read More Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: BloodchildRaye 6 – “Not Gonna Be (Forever)” After finishing Octavia Butler’s Fledgling, I thought this video would be appropriate.
Read More Otherworldly Videos: Raye 6*If you are or will be in Philadelphia, The Afrofuturist Affair is having its second Charity and Costume Ball in November. This year’s theme is “Museum of Time.” To be included as a performer, vendor, or to share your work, ideas or volunteer time, send an email to afrofuturistaffair@gmail.com by September 10, 2012 with “Charity […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: The Afrofuturist Affair, Tamara Natalie Madden, Urbanworld…*Akosua Adoma Owusu is a Ghanaian filmmaker who has created such films as Drecxiya and Me Broni Ba (My White Baby). Currently, she is working on a film project with her uncle, Ko Nimo, called Kwaku Ananse – A fable, a funeral and a spider coffin. The film, drawing from Ghanaian mythology, is about a […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: Kwaku Ananse, Burlesque and Burnt Sugar…io9 gave an exclusive look at the new covers for Octavia Butler’s books. They look amazing:
Read More Moving on the Wires: Butler’s Books By Their Covers…I found out about this yesterday: If you live in New York City, the Brooklyn Brainery will be having two Thursday classes, March 22nd and March 29th, on short stories from Octavia Butler. The class cost $27. At this time the class is full, but you can get on a waiting list. This is the […]
Read More Moving-on-the-Wires: Class on Octavia ButlerOliver Blecher did a post on afrofuturism and its manifesto. Blecher is a doctoral candidate in geography at the University of British Columbia. Currently, he is writing a book on the history of social scientists in the U.S. military, and he frequently writes commentaries on politics and popular culture. I first came across the term […]
Read More “What is Afrofuturism?” Part 5
Sherese Francis 