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#afrofuturism

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Amici Is Me 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴

Halfway through "Africa Risen", a relatively large #afrofuturism anthology by a diverse set of authors, and that was recorded by a number of african and black american voice actors.

So far it is quite different from Western futuristic stories, and generally has a large share of paranormal, mythical, and more fantastical stories.

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ShawnT 🐀

Last night I watched "The Brother From Another Planet" (1984) for the first time, and it is pure poetry. The main character is a mute alien who crash lands in NYC and finds his way to Harlem. I can't exactly call it Afrofuturist because it's clearly set in the Harlem of the 80's, but it hits on multiple parallel levels.

#movies#afrofuturism
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·𐑛𐑮𐑰𐑥𐑕𐑐𐑱𐑕

starting my new blog series "on-grid mesh networks and micro-farming" because high-density mesh is actually way harder to pull off plus rural areas can be pretty scary if you aren't a white boy. I welcome the confrontation, but that ain't for everyone.

Same goes for vertical farming, it might be inefficient, but our soil out here is poison and getting out would cost an amount that nobody has. I would love to have strong urban-rural relationships, but that division is also deeply political (even though I recognize that we also have a lot more in common than the people who divide us, cooperating with racists is hard to do when you're queer and brown trying to build networks with indigenous and black people)

#solarpunk is just #socialism with #afrofuturism aesthetics

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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

Musical Interlude: Jake Blount's recent CD is a fascinating concept album about the religious practices of a group of Black climate refugees after a series of future environmental disasters. Yup, this is Afrofuturist music, although not utopian. Blount is a great performer; I've seen him live a number of times.

"Didn't It Rain," performed by Jake Blount.

youtube.com/watch?v=fbFwHDx3wX

YouTubeJake Blount - "Didn't It Rain" (Official Music Video)By Smithsonian Folkways
#MusicalInterlude#JakeBlount#FolkRock
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Solarpunk Presents Podcast

7.2: Ariel & Christina Discuss: Why Must Utopia Be Cruel?

In this episode, Ariel and Christina try to get to the bottom of why our fictional visions of utopia are so negative. They often involve mindless acquiescence to an authoritarian nanny state, the oppression and labor of an underclass, or both. It’s as if we can’t imagine a situation in which we all voluntarily treat each other (reasonably) decently and life can be good for everyone. We discuss the literary origins of utopia, how it has evolved (or not) as a concept, and Ariel gives a few examples of sci-fi futures that are about as close to her style of solarpunk utopia as can be. Ultimately, the topic of utopia raises more questions than answers.

youtu.be/WR8yg2cOcMk?si=AwMMgH

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Season7 #Episode #PodcastEpisode #YouTube #utopia #SirThomasMore #SaintThomasMore #ThomasMore #Dystopia #Protopia #WakandaForever #BlackPanther #Indigenous Futurisms #Afrofuturism #Utopias #Anti-Utopia #LiteraryHistory #Cruelty #Despair #Hope #UntopiaParadox #Omelas #TheOnesWhoStayAndFight #TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas

YouTube7.2: Ariel & Christina Discuss: Why Must Utopia Be Cruel?By Solarpunk Presents
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nix

“I’ve heard it said that one of the aspects of grief that makes it harder to move on is that we keep rolling around this idea that ‘this can’t be happening. this can’t be real, this can’t be happening.’ And when I realize that the only lasting truth is change, as it pertains to this election, I could move to the next phase…to figure out, ‘OK, now what are we going to do?’”

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St. Louis American · What we can learn from Octavia Butler in times of chaosAuthors Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due are leaning into Butler’s Afrofuturistic vision to save hearts “in the midst of stress.” In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025? They showed up. That political chaos she wrote about in “Parable of the Sower”? […]
#octaviabutler#grief#resistance
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shimst3r

A book I've read some time ago I want to reshare is Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase.

It's a dystopian novel set in a future Botswana that deals with a lot of pressing topics (oppression through technology, social injustice, racial injustice, misogyny, to name a few).

It has a lot of Botswana folklore and horror that I still know almost nothing about, but made me realise that I should spend more time reading afrofuturism.

#afrofuturism#bookstodon
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