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position of learning and dialogue, as opposed to a position of expertise.

Sumayya Vally • New Forms of Articulation: Sumayya Vally in conversation with Esther Choi — Deem

Browne makes the case that physical branding played the same function for enslavers, allowing them to track racialized bodies via a permanent, unchangeable marker:

Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Any group that cannot negotiate a place for itself in the imagined future is already obsolete”

Karen Hellekson • SF 101: A Guide to Teaching and Studying Science Fiction

As in so much of this book, I am interested in generativity;

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

Because it says, first, how can I be a creator? How can I trust that I am worthy of defining desire and pleasure and liberation as myself or in relationship to other Black lesbians, Black queer women of color, trans and gender-nonconforming folks of color?

adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)

As Toni Cade Bambara has taught us, we must make just and liberated futures irresistible.16 We are all the protagonists of what might be called the great turning, the change, the new economy, the new world.

adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Both writers force us to consider how particular technologies not only exacerbate and deepen forms of social alienation and control, but graft onto already-existing social arrangements. Further, both foreground the ways that speculative futures draw upon racialized and casted anxieties in delimiting who is human or robotic, worthy of being healed o... See more

J. Khadijah Abdurahman • Letter from the Editor on Medicine and the Body in Tech

rather than seeking a resolution to blackness’s ongoing and irresolvable abjection, one might approach Black being in the wake as a form of consciousness.

Christina Sharpe • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

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