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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 ...
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 ...
[4] [1] [5] In 1976, one of Bubonicon's longest running traditions, the Green Slime Awards, was started in order to honor the worst in Science Fiction from the previous year. The convention began to include science lecturers, [ when? ] often from nearby Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico .
As speculative fiction gains popularity, author Terry J. Benton-Walker and others are centering Black culture in the fantasy genre. As the leaves change and the spooky season is in full effect, it ...
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 ...
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 ...
Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand; Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association; Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan; The Science Fiction Forum; Science Fiction Foundation; Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame; Science Fiction South Africa; SF Minnesota; SFera; Śląski Klub Fantastyki; Southern Fandom ...
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]