Black Futures

f humans are to make new ways forward in partnership with nature and technology, we must first take a close look at and upend the concepts, histories, institutions and systems that support the inequitable distribution of resources and power.

At this moment, we are unequivocally confronted with the need to reimagine our humanity and what it means to be living organisms sharing the planet with many other organisms, some living, some not. This is nothing new.

However, at this moment, we can plainly see how black, brown, queer and disabled bodies are devalued; how people who threaten the co

As historian Robin D. G. Kelley asks, “Even if we could gather together our dreams of a new world, how do we figure them out in a culture dominated by the marketplace?”

For Black women as well as Black men, it is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others — for their use and to our detriment.

proliferating futures from a place of possibility, of multitudinous paths forward towards a shared dream.

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