Afrofuturism

a bold reimagining for the future of Black bodies as designed by Black artists throughout the African diaspora.

Afrofuturism in Film

Not only Marvel's Black Panther! Afrofuturistic films date all the way back to the 1970s with Sun Ra's 81-minute film "Space is the Place" kicking off the phenomenon.

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Afrofuturism in Literature

Speaking of the feminist implications of the Afrofuturist aesthetic, did you know that Octavia Butler is generally known as the Mother of Afrofuturism?

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Her Style is Out of this World

Space Sounds

Afrofuturism in Music

The sounds of futuristic blackness not only have to be imagined in the pages of Afrofuturistic texts or on the screens of Afrofuturstic films, but can be fully embodied by Afrofuturistic music.

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