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I am happy for your miracle. Goddess knows... there are not enough of them in the world.
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New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (2019)
Anthology of contemporary stories by emerging and seasoned writers of many races
There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” proclaimed Octavia E Butler.
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many races telling stories filled with shocking delights, powerful visions of the familiar made strange. Between this book’s covers burn tales of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their indefinable overlappings. These are authors aware of our many possible pasts and futures, authors freed of stereotypes and clichés, ready to dazzle you with their daring genius.
Unexpected brilliance shines forth from every page.
Including stories by Indrapramit Das, E Lily Yu, Rebecca Roanhorse, Anil Menon, Jaymee Goh and many others. Introduction by Levar Burton.
by Nisi Shawl
Get it now here
NISI SHAWL is a writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories and a journalist. She is the co-author (with Cynthia Ward) of Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov’s SF Magazine, Strange Horizons, and numerous other magazines and anthologies.
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Wow okay I did this all in one day
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By Rwandan Artist Kalima Alain
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Sun Ra's syllabus
In recent years, the idea of afrofuturism went from the fringes to being so central that it’s sparked debates about overuse:
But one thing is beyond dispute: Sun Ra is central to the afrofuturist canon.
In 1971, Sun Ra designed a course for UC Berkeley called “African-American Studies 198” - which had a host of subtitles, from “Sun Ra 171” to “The Black Man in the Universe” to “The Black man in the Cosmos.”
As Open Culture’s Josh Jones writes, everything about this course is spectacular, even the reading list.
But best of all were the lectures, which biographer John Szwed described:
“Sun Ra wrote biblical quotes on the board and then ‘permutated’ them—rewrote and transformed their letters and syntax into new equations of meaning, while members of the Arkestra passed through the room, preventing anyone from taping the class. His lecture subjects included Neoplatonic doctrines; the application of ancient history and religious texts to racial problems; pollution and war; and a radical reinterpretation of the Bible in light of Egyptology.”
Despite Ra’s attempts, at least one student recorded at least one of these lectures, and it’s AMAZING:
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Pretty in Pink.
Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell in Little Shop of Horrors, 1986.
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gonna try and make some for-funsies comics of my Chemistry Magical Girls and i wanted to start with a very cheesy cliche one for Organic hdjkdfhsd
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Giby Joseph
Source: artstation.com
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In progress.
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@internetbby on instagram
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Lore Lowdown: Aetherytes
10/28/2015
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Whoop, reblogging this for IC explanations later.
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Educated yourselves!
Because this shit’s easy to forget, even if its the first thing you are told the moment you get Return.
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Part two of the LitHub interview. “There is always some extra thing that has to happen to bring the attention around. ‘As to the worth of my own work, I cannot know and you cannot tell me,’ said Thomas Mann. And that’s basically how it is.”