Swag From the Motherland: #BlackFutureMonth Edition
For #BlackFutureMonth, here’s a quick rundown of some amazing projects from African creators!
You’re a Wizard, Negro
I am always thinking of black people. 90% of the time i’m also thinking about a story or playing a scene in my head. These past few weeks, my head-movies have been filled with black sorceresses and warlocks, wizards and shamans and illusionists and mages. I think it’s all Quick Ben‘s fault. I just finished…
October is Black Speculative Fiction Month
The title says it all. For the next fortnight and some change, people in various corners of the internet will be celebrating Black Speculative Fiction Month by creating and exposing other people to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and other Speculative Fiction built and birthed by People of Color. This is something that I never thought I’d…
Six Essential Fantasy and Science Fiction Books Written By Black Authors
I think that I’ve told my awakening story before: Some years ago, I existed as a slightly chubby and extremely black fan of fantasy, comic books, role playing games, and anime. I experimented with MTG and D&D. I stayed up all night through a semi-hurricane to finish Final Fantasy VII. I sulked along with my…
The Key to the Afrofuture is Sonic [Stumbled Upon]
…not temporal. I tweeted this awhile back, with the basic meaning being that my particular understanding and introduction of afrofuturism/afrofuturist thought has been more influenced by sound, by music and words spoken than my literature. Even my introduction to Octavia Butler was an audiobook reading backed by light jazz while surrounded by blackness and forward…
