#walidah imarisha

[bfpnola]

[ID: Twitter post by @/NotNikyatu: ““And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each of us is already science fiction walking around on two legs.

Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us.”

/Walidah Imarisha.” END ID.]

#twitter #quote #walidah imarisha #mental health #bipoc #intersectional feminism #reaux speaks

[thefutureisoursart]

A fantasy text explores what society would be like without a patriarchy. It was published in 1905 in the The Indian Ladies' Magazine. It is a speculation of better conditions for the women of India during this time.

The text includes elements of 1905 speculative scientific inventions and applications of eco friendly infrastructure. It creates a utopia where women are free and that there is no war or violence.

"Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction." - Walidah Imarisha

#Walidah Imarisha #Ladyland

[butchniqabi]

"And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each of us is already science fiction walking around on two legs. Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us." Walidah Imarisha, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements

#is this anything. #anyways welcome to far beyond the stars wednesday

[samueldelany]

In Portland, Oregon: Walidah Imarisha leads a spring term Portland State Uni course called Afro-Futurisms/Black Science Fiction.

[harriet-de-g]

Hollow

Hollow est une nouvelle futuriste, racontée depuis la place des handiEs. Dans un futur idéal, quelle place nous est donnée ou plutôt laissée ? Quand la plupart des utopies proposées ignorent complètement une partie de son humanité, difficile en tant que crip de se projeter dans un futur radieux et paisible. C’est l’histoire d’une résistance face au validisme et à l’eugénisme, l’histoire d’une communauté mise à l’écart qui continue de construire ses îlots de paix.

Découvrir puis traduire cette nouvelle de Mia Mingus a été une petite aventure en elle-même. Cette histoire est belle et importante parce qu'elle alimente nos imaginaires de solidarité, de débrouille et de soin crip. Elle est aussi difficile car la cruauté qui y est dépeinte n'est pas éloignée de nos réalités.

À l’heure où le débat sur l’euthanasie revient en force, et menace directement l’existence des personnes handies et malades, elle est plus que jamais d’actualité.

Comme tous les textes de ce blog avant lui, Hollow est disponible à la commande à prix libre, pour permettre de soutenir cette activité. Pour cela, il suffit de m’envoyer un message privé en précisant sa commande, le prix qu’on veut payer, son mail & selon le mode d’envoi : une adresse. Vous pouvez aussi le retrouver dans sa version imprimable ici (en pleine page) ou ici (en format cahier).

[Traduit de l’anglais (Canada) par Emma Bigé & Harriet de G. Originellement publié dans adrienne maree brown & Walidah Imarisha (dir.). Octavia’s Brood. Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, Chico (CA), AK Press, 2015. Publié en France dans la revue Multitude 94, Justice handie pour des futurs dévalidés.]

#disability justice #intersectionality #zine making #zine promo #criptheory #art zine #futurism #utopia

[sistahscifi]

We are in stock in the ever popular Black Sci-fi Short Stories!!!

The collection is published by @FlametreePublishing and edited by @tiarossedtor.

The collection features stories by:

• Wole Talabi wtalabi – The Regression Test

• James Beamon @writerbeamon – An Empty, Hollow Interview

• K. Tempest Bradford @ktempestbradford – Élan Vital

• Walidah Imarisha @walidahimarisha – Space Traitors

• Tara Campbell @thetreerevolution – The Orb

• Michelle F. Goddard – The Floating City of Pengimbang

• Harambee K. Grey-Sun – The New Colossuses

• Emmalia Harrington – Seven Thieves

• Patty Nicole Johnson – The Line of Demarcation

• Russell Nichols – e-race and Giant Steps

• Megan Pindling – You May Run On

• Sylvie Soul – Suffering Inside, But Still I Soar

• Lyle Stiles – The Pox Party

If you do not already own Black Sci-fi Short Stories, you can purchase it on our @facebookapp, @instagram, @shopify, @tiktok, @pinterest or @librofm stores. Link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/products/black-sci-fi-short-shorts

Better yet, you can check it out at your local #library! Today, we are highlighting @seattlepubliclibrary and @kingcountylibrary!

Reposted @ktempestbradford I have a story Black Sci-fi Short Stories alongside some AMAZING authors. Check out the table of contents. It's available anywhere good books are sold.

[kickmag]

Octavia E. Butler's Kindred Becomes FX Series

Octavia E. Butler's Kindred has been adapted into a drama series for FX. The late science fiction writer's novel about time travel and antebellum slavery through the eyes of a young Black woman will be presented in eight episodes. The announcement was made Monday at New York Comic Con on a panel featuring executive-producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and cast members Micah Stock, Gayle Rankin, Sheria Irving, David Alexander Kaplan, Austin Smith, Mallori Johnson and Sophina Brown. Johnson plays Dana Brown, a young Black woman in Los Angeles who has relocated with aspirations of becoming a successful writer but must first address secrets from her family's past. 

Butler became famous in the '90s with her Parable series and in 1995 she became the first science-fiction writer to win a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. The Parable Of The Talents also won the esteemed Nebula Award. Her stories are recognized for bringing a keen analysis of contemporary society through the eyes of people on the margins with a vision for the future. Butler's work has continued to be celebrated since her 2006 passing with an asteroid, a moon of planet pluto and scholarships in her name. In 2015, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements an anthology of short stories centered on social justice and inspired by Butler was edited by Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown. 

Kindred will debut on December 13th via Hulu and soon after be available on Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ under the Star banner in all other territories.

#octavia butler #kindred #fx #hulu

[reyesstrand]

thank u for the tag jillian & max @marjansmarwani @terramous ❣️❣️

name: maddie

height: 5’2/5’3ish

time: 7:39pm

favourite band/artists: too many to name but some staples for me are fleetwood mac, muna, phoebe bridgers, the national, mitski, soccer mommy, maggie rogers, rina sawayama, bon iver, big thief, lucy dacus, orville peck, lord huron, frank ocean

last movie: nope

last show: i think the last one i finished/fully caught up on was succession a month ago, and next on my list is the bear.

when did i create this blog: feb 2020

what i post: mainly lone star, but also other fandom and non-fandom related bits that i enjoy <3

last thing i googled: a recipe

other blogs: i have an inactive main blog

do i get asks: i do! i go through periods of being really good at answering them and then getting overwhelmed when they pile up in my inbox but i love and appreciate all the messages i get <3

following: 368

instruments: i played piano from when i was like 7/8 to 13/14 and just kind of unfortunately fell out of it

what i’m wearing: basic t-shirt and jeans!

dream trip: much like jillian, i’ve always wanted to do a big europe trip.

nationality: canadian

favourite song: this is an impossible question and the answer literally changes constantly, but i’ve been playing “silver springs” by fleetwood mac on repeat recently so right now we’ll go with that

last book i’ve read: i have about two weeks left (yikes) to finish my research paper for my masters degree, so as i’ve been revising drafts i’ve been rereading my sources! includes octavia butler’s parable of the sower, slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor by rob nixon, and octavia’s brood by adrienne maree brown & walidah imarisha.

top three fictional universes i’d like to live in: any where i could just simply chill for a little while akdnskdn

no pressure tagging: @marwani-strickland @strandnreyes @morganaspendragonss @rafael-silva @iboatedhere @typicaltk @dangermagnetstrand @reyescarlos @sunshinestrand and anyone else who wants to do this!

#tag games

[chicanokat]

Walidah Imarisha, black educator and writer on race relations will be speaking tomorrow at 3pm PST. Info here

https://www.facebook.com/100063615186336/posts/409618454501991/?d=n

[fatemareads]

the decolonization of the imagination is the most dangerous and subversive form there is: for it is where all other forms of decolonization are born

Walidah Imarisha in Octavia’s Brood

#decolonization #walidah imarisha #octavia's brood #quotes

[appalachianfuturism]

“LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA.— When I was a teenaged survivor of childhood sexual abuse and partner abuse within my family, some of the first places that gave me hope and visions for how violence and abuse could change were science fiction. I read Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Starhawk’s The Fifth Sacred Thing before I turned 20, and they all had these incredible ideas for how rape culture could change. In their worlds, everyone was trained in self-defense and de-escalation, and there were systems of atonement, reparations and healing when violence did occur.

In contrast, mainstream survivor literature didn’t have any visions for how sexual abuse and partner violence could end. Science fiction was this place of rich prefigurative survivor politics that backed up my dreams of creating and participating in anti-violence politics where my and other survivors visions were at the center of the work, not a side note.”

#Octavia’s brood #walidah imarisha #adrienne maree brown #leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha #transformative justice #science fiction #visionary fiction #community accountability #abolition

[inclusivefuture]

Visionary Epistolary Fiction Workshop for Trans, Non-binary, and Genderqueer Writers

What is visionary epistolary fiction?

Visionary fiction - a term developed by writer and scholar Walidah Imarisha to describe speculative fiction that helps us imagine futures and worlds that are socially just.

Epistolary fiction - fiction that emulates non-fiction documents, such as letters, emails, diary entries, interview transcripts, grocery lists, historical texts, scientific reports, blog posts, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles, to name a few.

Visionary epistolary fiction is the combination of these two forms.

Why are we offering this workshop?

When we developed the concept for Inclusive Future Magazine, we knew that not all spec fic writers were going to have pieces in their submission pile that fit the bill, and yet we see so much potential for visionary epistolary fiction to provide realistic examples of inclusion within the context of various cultures. That’s why we are proud to present a free writing workshop open to trans, non-binary, and genderqueer writers anywhere in the world who want to play with visionary epistolary fiction. This workshop will run regardless of whether our Kickstarter campaign is successful.

Read more on our website (inclusivefuturemag.com) for additional details and information on how to sign up.

Also, the Kickstarter for our first issue is still open! We're 12% funded so far!

#inclusivefuture #trans #nonbinary #genderqueer #agender #walidah imarisha #visionary fiction #workshop #writer #trans writer #trans writers #nonbinary writer #nonbinary writers #genderqueer writer #genderqueer writers #agender writer #agender writers #queer #queer writers #writing #speculative fiction #spec fic #magazine #writing workshop #speculative fiction workshop #writing opportunity #spec fic workshop #science fiction #scifi workshop #sci fi workshop

[thefutureisoursart]

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Conrad, Dean. “Archive: Femmes Futures : One Hundred Years of Female Representation in Sf Cinema.” Science Fiction Film and Television 4, no. 1 (2011): 79–100. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2011.5.

Dahms, Harry F. “Science-Fiction Films and ‘Love’: Toward a Critique of Regressive Social       Relations.” Soundings (Nashville, Tenn.) 103, no. 2 (2020): 121–57.       https://doi.org/10.5325/SOUNDINGS.103.2.0121.

Ferrando, Francesca. “A Feminist Genealogy of Posthuman Aesthetics in the Visual         Arts.” Palgrave Communications 2, no. 1 (2016).             https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.11.

Gibson, Rebecca. “More Than Merely Human: How Science Fiction Pop-Culture Influences Our             Desires for the Cybernetic.” Sexuality & Culture 21, no. 1 (2017): 224–46.      https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-016-9391-9. 

Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism In the Late Twentieth Century .” https://uottawa.brightspace.com/d2l/le/content/388182/viewContent/5529738/View, n.d. 

Imarisha, Walidah. “Introduction.”https://uottawa.brightspace.com/d2l/le/content/388182/viewContent/5529731/View, n.d. 

McMains, Juliet. “Queer Tango Space: Minority Stress, Sexual Potentiality, and Gender                           Utopias.” TDR : Drama Review 62, no. 2 (2018): 59–77.                                    https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00748. 

Perea, Katia. “Touching Queerness in Disney Films Dumbo and Lilo & Stitch.” Social Sciences (Basel) 7, no. 11 (2018): 225-. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci7110225. 

Yeung, Sarah. “Becoming Posthuman in ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’: Exploring 

Cinematic Mediations of Memory and Technology.” Limina: A Journal of Historical and             Cultural Studies 26, no. 1 (2020): 13–25. 

#bibliography

[emmagoldman42]

The liberated futures we want don’t exist as untouchable distant points out of our reach.

When we focus on collective action, mutual aid, self determination, centering the leadership of the marginalized, we defy linear time.

We pull those futures into the present.

Let’s keep pulling liberated futures into the present over and over again, until that’s all there is.

Walidah Imarisha

#walidah imarisha #anarchism #communism #direct action #mutual aid #community care #speculative fiction

[samueldelany]

Our ancestors are dreaming of us. --Walidah Imarisha

[qualr]

Prayer for Assata Poem - Walidah Imarisha

A poem for Asssta Shakur, written and performed by Walidah Imarisha. Filmed by Six10 Visuals. Recorded at Portland Community Media.

#live #poetry #poets of color #black women poets #poets #assata shakur #walidah imarisha