#astro blackness

[astro-blackness]

[writersnotebookphd]

Time Travel

"Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice (2015)“Black Quantum Futurism (or BQF) is a new approach to living and experiencing reality by way of the manipulation of space-time in...

Research. This term, more of my posts are about process than about what we read. Actually, it is closer to 50/50. I have had to come to terms with the idea that I am absolutely fascinated, more like obsessed, with black speculative and science fiction. So much so, that it is impacting my daily life in terms of thinking of constructions of blackness, liminality, space, blackness as a technology, and how this is even further complicating by gender, disability, and neuro-atypical folks.

My heroine jumps through time, not like the show Quantum Leap, but rather she feels her way into other times and places. She does not imagine herself in these places or try to go there (at least not initially), it is when that she is feeling most free, detached from the world around her, and connected with something greater, that she takes the leap. She is in a state of bliss, and at some points, ecstacy when she leaves her body. Pleasure is the catalyst. Pleasure is power. What is more radical than a black woman channeling pleasure into something as immense as time travel?

[lookingglasswarsportal]

Ever wanted to know what it's like to open yourself to the Heart Crystal? Journey with ziggzaggerz as she intimates Queen of Clubs and becomes a #WonderWarrior http://goo.gl/PKMuq3

[soulbrotherv2]

Astro Blackness:  Remixing and [Re]Mixing Black Identity Before, Now, and Beyond

Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, California

February 12 - 13, 2014