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Reclaiming the right to dream the future, strengthening the muscle to imagine together as Black people, is a revolutionary decolonizing activity.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
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
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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.
Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism
De bala em prosa: Vozes da resistência ao genocídio negro (Portuguese Edition)
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Mia Mingus wrote one of my favorite pieces about crip futures in Octavia’s Brood, where disabled people escape eugenicist genocide on earth to create a loving, traumatized disabled planet of collective disabled farms that receive crip infants.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

Imagination is one of the spoils of colonization, which in many ways is claiming who gets to imagine the future for a given geography. Losing our imagination is a symptom of trauma. Reclaiming the right to dream the future, strengthening the muscle to imagine together as Black people, is a revolutionary decolonizing activity.