#fergusonfuture

[ayanaahj]

I made something for a special someone who has supported us from the very beginning. This is the prototype. More to come. Always. Looking forward to the conference http://bit.ly/OebStudies * * * * * * * * * * #fergusonFuture #shapingChange #becauseOfOctavia #oebStudies #radioimagination #tellingmystories #octaviaLives #octaviaebutler #octaviabutler #planwithmechallenge #planwithme #planner #notebook #journal #bulletjournal #bwwpc #blackwomenplan #bulletjournalcommunity #plannercommunity #plannernerd #planneraddict #stationery #bulletjournaljunkies #showmeyourplanner #bujoinspire #mindfulness #selfcare #motivation #wellbeing #washitape #ribbon #bookmark #booknerd #afrofuturism #blackfuturist #quantumFuturism #blackjoytechnologies #wildseed #kindred #anyanwu #lilith #olamina #custom #laurenoyaolsmina #earthseed #seedToHarvest #parableofthesower #parableofthetalents #shapechange #godischange

[solarpunks]

Ferguson is the Future: Incubating Alternative Worlds Through Arts, Activism, and Scholarship by Princeton University African American Studies

What stories about power, difference, and belonging fuel the social crises we face today? How does visionary fiction offer us models for creating new possible worlds? Can the combined insights and interventions of artists, activists, and scholars plot a different course forward? “Ferguson is the Future” is part of an ongoing collaboration to imagine and create alternative worlds that are more just and representative of humanity. This symposium brings together a multigenerational panel of speculative fiction writers, activists, filmmakers, academics, and artists to discuss the historical, present-and-future manifestations of a social reality we wish to create and thrive in. As we work to shape change, we will use this space as an incubator and laboratory to grow new visions of the worlds we want to exist.

Recordings of the first three panel discussions from the recent (and really excellent) conference on (among other things) social justice, afrofuturism, and envisioning better worlds.

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”

—Octavia E. Butler

[coloredgirlshustle]

#BlackGirlMagic following the #FergusonFuture symposium: #ColoredGirlsHustle x @adriennemareebrown, co-editor + author of @octaviasbrood

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@besteadwell on the Film panel at Princeton. Droppin knowledge!! #fergusonfuture

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Princeton. @besteadwell #fergusonfuture