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Media based organizations such as blacksci-fi.com, [19] the Black Science Fiction Society, and the State of Black Science Fiction group on Facebook centers creators of Black science fiction and its fandom. Founded in 1999 by Philadelphia native, Maurice Waters, blacksci-fi.com is one of the first media websites created that is dedicated to ...
Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science, and history that explores the intersection of the African diaspora culture with science and technology. It addresses themes and concerns of the African diaspora through technoculture and speculative fiction, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared interest in envisioning black futures that stem from Afro-diasporic ...
In film, Afrofuturism is the incorporation of black people's history and culture in science fiction film and related genres. The Guardian ' s Ashley Clark said the term Afrofuturism has "an amorphous nature" but that Afrofuturist films are "united by one key theme: the centering of the international black experience in alternate and imagined realities, whether fiction or documentary; past or ...
“I matter — as a Black queer person, as a Black person, or as a person in general,” he said. “I’m gifting [this book] to our community, and I feel like this is a part of us. It’s for us.
The sly beauty of "The American Society of Magical Negroes" is that it’s a wicked satire of white people that’s also an empathetic satire of Black people. As a filmmaker, Kobi Libii sees the ...
The emerging genre of Afrofuturist literature is influenced by two strands, Afro-pessimism and Black optimism. [7] Afro-pessimism asserts that the violence of colonialism and slavery contributes to a definition of Blackness as a state of non-being. In this state, Black individuals exist within and yet are alienated from the rest of society. [8]
Their mutual affinity for Black science fiction comics inspired them to collaborate with Fuller, the original author of Ebon’s story, to update the comic with the likes of digital illustrations ...
The history of slavery, the African diaspora, and the Civil Rights Movement sometimes influence the narrative of SF stories written by black authors. Within science fiction, the concern is that many traditional science fiction works do not include black people in the future under any context, or only in sidelined roles.