Speculative Art: Healing Through Radical Imagination

“Working on and against [the dominant ideology] is a strategy that tries to transform a cultural logic from within, always laboring to enact permanent structural change while at the same time valuing the importance of local or everyday…

Afrotectopia Imagineer Fellowship 2020

An omnispecialized, prismatic, and interdisciplinary Black…

On Imagining: Ancestral tools, travel guides, and community building for the end of the world

Imagineer Fellowship: Seeds for Radical Imagination

In Adrienne Marie Brown’s Emergent Strategy she offers that “all organizing is science fiction — that we are shaping the future we long…

A Meditation on Afro-NOWism

There are several things this fellowship provided me the space to remember; a few being the understanding of interconnectivity, the feeling of humility transmuted into reverence and gratitude, the healing power of radical imagination, and the tangible power of visualization…

A Recipe for Future People

Reflections on the 2020 Afrotectopia Fellowship

Ingredients;

Fire

Water

Imagination

Reinvigorating the Village Mind

“There’s no moon, but we can see very well. The sky is full of stars.” — Octavia Butler

The rhetoric of individualism has turned us away from the communal mindset. Our generosity has vanished amidst the need to receive after giving. Our…

Three Part Notes On Afro-Futurist World Building strategies-

As a final contribution to the 2020 Afrotectopia Imagineer fellowship, I decided to write a text that looks back at three ideas developed during the fellowship. Although not directly connected to one another each exploration…