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Afro-Now-Ism
We are cultivating within ourselves a transformative practice that helps us heal from what the world has been, while generating what the world will be. We must become accountable to our time, our earth, our species, our people, and our loved ones, from the inside out.
Adrienne Maree Brown • Murmurations: Returning to the Whole
Moving forward, then, requires remembering who we are.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
We sought to make sense of our unique paradox: We have never been more empowered and yet, in many ways, are still so disenfranchised. Social media has granted Black folks a platform to tell our own stories, but it has also made us subject to a new brand of surveillance and unprecedented co-option. How can we find innovative ways to define ourselves
... See moreKimberly Drew • Black Futures
transition imaginaries are concerned not only with restructuring the world out there but with transforming the worlds in here—our identities, our psyches, our spirits.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
We need individuals and communities that serve these liminal times by calling them into being with the fullness of their senses and with a compassionate dedication to realizing instances of these new futures in the present. Transforming fragmentation into cohering fragments of integral futures. Doing the difficult work that is both material and spi... See more
Jeremy Johnson • "Three Theses on Liminality"
Stuart Evans added
Afrofuturism is typically defined as a Black cultural aesthetic that explores the intersections of the African diaspora and technology––or, in other words, a form of Black science fiction.
Black writer and performer Neema Githere writes about what she calls “ Afropresentism ,” which she defines as a “teaching genre” that “channels your ancestry thr
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In this place of transition - a place that feels disorienting, confusing, messy - we need to be learning from each other, plural in the possibilities we generate, and willing to let go of those mental frameworks that are no longer serving us well.