>Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture
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>http://www.amazon.com/Afrofuturism-World-Sci-Fi-Fantasy-Culture/dp/1613747969/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y

Ultimately it was the lead up to the release of this book that got me back to engaging with SF. I'd slacked off from reading as a whole after starting a family. Then when I started reading the press and then the book itself it served as a reminder of where I stood with it. Wrote this essay on it - http://avanturb.com/news/?p=1567

Ended up having a long conversation with her last year amongst others and realizing that in the ten years I've been on hiatus nothing's really changed. That's what got me to the broader picture, and thinking beyond the niche to the greater forces at work.

Of course the issue of race and diversity would be at the top of our list of issues, but I think what this post is also trying to shed light on is that the environment is bad enough without our issues. Indeed ti would seem that the people in power are not the ones that could ever come to understand what our issues are. How do you put a full on assault on that. Not just the cry of I exist read me. But you guys are fucked from the core and that's the reason you can only pretend around my existence.


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