Moving on the Wires: News, Posts and New Music

*Atlanta BlackStar has a new series called blerds, which features topics on technology, lifestyle, education and the arts. Rasheedah Phillips of The Afrofuturist Affair (correction) is one of the writers of the series and here is one of the articles, “Afrofuturism: Black Presence in Sci-Fi Worlds of Technology, Magic, Fantasy:” “This is where afrofuturism as […]

Moving on the Wires: This Week’s News and Posts

Sorry I did not post for most of the week; I have a slight sprained wrist, so I had to slow down a bit on writing. But anyway, here is some news articles and written pieces from the week: *Martin Luther King in Science Fiction on i09 *”Playing a Minority Forecaster in search of Afrofuturism: […]

A Speculative Tribute to Harriet Tubman

Yesterday, I wrote a post about historical revisionism, which included the whitewashing of Harriet Tubman in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Today, I want to showcase artists who have created speculative fiction with Harriet Tubman. * Pierre Bennu of Exit the Apple‘s Black Moses Barbie mock commercials: #1 #2 #3 These commercials “for a Black Moses […]

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 […]

What Is Afrofuturism? Part 10: SteamFunk

T-Pain feat. Tay Dizm – “Never Leave Her” Balogun Ojetade from Chronicles of Harriet wrote a great post about movements and more specifically, the Steamfunk movement. Here is part of it: … Steamfunk: A Movement Within A Movement Steamfunk is narrowly defined as “a person, style of dress or subgenre of fiction that seeks to bring […]