The communities and individuals who build Afrofuturism up, as well as those that draw from it, work together to claim and reclaim space—in the stories we tell of the past and in the visions we imagine of the future. Explore various ways of claiming and reclaiming space.
Topics include:
The communities and individuals who build Afrofuturism up, as well as those that draw from it, work together to claim and reclaim space—in the stories we tell of the past and in the visions we imagine of the future. Explore various ways of claiming and reclaiming space.
Topics include:
Mindships: AfroFuturistic Travel in the Caribbean Imaginary
From the Deep In the Wake of Drexciya - Ayana V. Jackson
Reimagining the Middle Passage
Reservoir Noir: Dreaming through Submergence
Recovering Black Speculative Space in Eatonville, FL
Unrecognizable Wreckage and Alien Shrapnel: Public Art as Cultural Transformer
A Philly Jawn: Curated Black Geographies
A Brief History of Megacities and Social Justice in Black Science Fiction
Yarrow Mamout: Weaver of Islam, Counter-Memory, and Afrofuturism in late 18th century Georgetown, DC
Folkloric Motifs in Nalo Hopkinson's Speculative Fiction
Denenge: Afrofuturity
Mapping Transtemporal Networks for Liberation in "Sojourner" by Cauleen Smith
“The Hall of Missy”: Imagining a Black Women’s Museum
The Blues Never Dies
Resisting Genocide Through Digital Connections
Afrofuturism: Theory, Praxis, & Movement
Speculative STEM Curriculums
Preserving Afrofuturist Legacies
Blackness Unbound: Afrofuturism and the revolutionary imagination
Black Screens, Black Voices
The Laboratory of Speculative Ethnology
Before Black Panther
Love Theory: the Legacy archetype of womanist speculation
Welcome to AVEN: Claiming Black Space in Virtual Reality Pluriverse
Africanfuturism in the Space 5.0 Era
Narratives of Fugility
Interplanetary Black Feminism
Questioning designs for human space endeavors through a Black Queer Feminist Lens
The Afronauts: Connecting shared African histories & futures through storytelling
George Clinton, Alienation, & the US Astronautical Imagination
The video presentations were created for the virtual Claiming Space Symposium, January 27-29, 2022.