Swag From the Motherland: #BlackFutureMonth Edition
For #BlackFutureMonth, here’s a quick rundown of some amazing projects from African creators!
New Comics|Kid Code: Channel Zero
Kid Code: Channel Zero Issue: First Senses Shattering Issue! Release Date: Available Now Credits: John Jennings, Stacey Robinson, & Damien Duffy Price: $1.99 Digital Download at IndyPlanet You know, it makes sense that a genre-bending, convention-defying title like Kid Code: Channel Zero would come from Rosarium Publishing, the folks that gave us the Mothership anthology. Here’s the official…
Black Nerds, Black Cool, and Afrofuturism
A little while back I dropped a link to a series of essays published a few years ago in the Social Text Journal’s Afrofuturism issue. The essays were (and as far as I can tell, still are) free to view, even without access to credentials from an institute of higher education. I’ve finally gotten a…
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…
