Thanks to the likes of Butler and Monáe, my own interest in science fiction has started to pique. As someone whose work is entirely pre-occupied with matters of social justice, and the intersections of race, class, gender and state violence, in many ways, engaging with an Afro-futurist future world helps sustain some hope in the backdrop of a past and present that often feel like a dystopian hellscape, most especially for people racialised as ‘other’ in a world ordered by White Supremacy. And as writer Aja Romano reminds us, ‘one of the key hallmarks of Afro-futurism is that it uses the grandiose spectacle of a deliberately othered state of [B]lackness — often through metaphors of aliens, androids, and other non-human species — to call attention to its own difference.’
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