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Alex Smith is a queer, Black sci-fi writer, musician and visual artist. In this interview, we discuss his collection of short stories, ARKDUST, as well as his many influences, ranging from Public Enemy to Nirvana and Marvel Comics to the Black Panther Party. Photo by Shane Jenkins.

Listen to the interview here or in iTunes. Support the podcast here. Read the transcript here.

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#METROPOLARITY SEEKS ACCOUNTS//ANALYSES//FANTASIES//BROKEN DREAMS//AND OTHER SURVEILLANCE MATERIALS REGARDING LOCALLY GROWN EXPERIENCES OF ♡BAD USER AGREEMENTS ♡ YOU HAVE UNWITTINGLY BEEN ENTANGLED WITH including but not limited to: The american dream, 'safe spaces', nuclear families, youth, beauty, health, xfinity bundles, etc etc Disclaimer: For safety purposes, participation in this inquiry will not require genetic, bio-political, or social mediated data. Participants will maintain the right to manipulate identifying data as they see fit. email us at metropolarity at g m a i l dot com   FLIER TRANSCRIPT: [

ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM A BAD USER AGREEMENT?

METROPOLARITY is seeking participants for an upcoming inquiry to be published in the Journal of Speculative Vision & Critical Liberation Technologies.

Are You Experiencing Feelings Of:

Guilt or Shame

Anxiety

Nameless Frustration

Fininacial Doom

Self Harming Ideation

Truancy

Murderous Raging

Near-Total Dissociation

Forgetfullness

Compulsive Scrolling

Hypervigilance

Forced or Pressured Speech

Paranoia

Nihilism or Not Caring

Losing Time

These may be symptoms of living under one or more Bad User Agreements. Common examples of predisposing factors that increase the risk of experiencing a Bad User Agreement include:

Filling a prescription

Attending an appointment with a medical profesional

Enrolling in post secondary educational programs

Getting married

Paying into your social security fund

Existing as Black, Indigenous, Poor, Trans, Disabled, etc.

Opening a bank account

Searching for housing

Leaving your cell phone on for extended periods of time

DUE BY FEBRUARY 14th, 2018 Send experiential materials, dreams, memories, premonitions, cautionary tales, fantasies, and any supplementary self surveillance materials to METROPOLARITY at GMAIL dot COM with subject line “BAD USER AGREEMENT” and any of the following attachments:

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Participants will receive at no cost: $$ • 2 copies of the published inquiry $$ • Financial compensation as determined by number of eligible participants.

Disclaimer: For safety purposes, participation in this inquiry will not require genetic, bio-political, or social mediated data. Participants maintain the right to manipulate any of their own identifying data as they see fit.]

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Style of Attack Report by METROPOLARITY

2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in LGBTQ SF/F/Horror

"...an unprecedentedly rich source of contemporary science fiction..."

"Style of Attack is amazing! It's like our generation's Snow Crash but way better; feel like it's exactly the kind of work that people need to be making and reading right now. Metropolarity is killing it."

METROPOLARITY is a DIY sci-fi collective based, bred, and tested in the colliding future-present of Philadelphia. This Style of Attack Report contains select work from Metropolarity's four founding members, who contribute theory, practice, and experience of home grown speculative visioning for both historical documentation as well as personal and collective survival. The collection serves as a model and a record of how Black, brown, queer, low-resource, working, ill and in-recovery people can  project themselves into the future, conjuring resources, technology, and magic that aid us in the present.

Also this sci-fi is FIRE cuz the crew don't play.

120 pages 4.25" x 7"

METROPOLARITY: The manifestation of contrasting principles, tendencies, or lifestyles in an urban system and any reactions resulting from encounters between these forces.

AVAILABLE HERE

$15 USD shipping included in US

If you would like to stock our book in your shop or classroom, email [email protected] for inquiries on wholesale ordering.

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Moogfest, happening May 18-21 in Durham, NC, has adopted a new tactic this year for releasing its lineup, sharing out snippets of information on a weekly basis. The biggest Moogfest announcement of the past week was the addition of a new theme to the "Future Thought" lineup: Black Quantum Futurism.

The theme, co-presented by Moogfest artist Moor Mother and Philadelphia-based collectives The Afrofuturist Affair and Metropolarity, "explores the intersections of futurism, creative media, DIY-aesthetics, and activism in marginalized communities through an alternative temporal lens. It uses quantum physics, futurist traditions, and Black and African diasporic cultural traditions of consciousness, time, and space to develop temporal technologies that are more beneficial to marginalized peoples’ survival in a “high-tech” world currently dominated by oppressive, fatalistic linear time constructs," according to the festival website.

The agenda of the theme's organizers? To "dive into a deeper understanding of self, representation, and consciousness through a Sci-Fi lens . . . through an array of workshops and conversations."

"Afrofuturism" has been a theme of past Moogfests, and the new theme is presented as an evolution, or perhaps a further exploration, of that term, which was both questioned and lauded at last year's event by panelists. How is "Black Quantum Futurism" different? According to Moor Mother, it's about expansion rather than differentiation."

Oh, and because it's Moogfest, there's a playlist for it.

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honestly the rest of us in the crew are more or less lurking & getting a handle on our lives, so if you want more fire ish to get into definitely follow @communityfutureslab​ & @blackquantumfuturism on Instagram

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METROPOLARITY is a DIY sci-fi collective based, bred, and tested in the colliding future-present of Philadelphia. This Style of Attack Report contains select work from METROPOLARITY's four founding members, who contribute theory, practice, and experience of home grown speculative visioning for both historical documentation as well as personal and collective survival. The collection serves as a model and a record of how Black, brown, queer, low-resource, working, ill and in-recovery people can  project themselves into the future, conjuring resources, technology, and magic that aid us in the present.

Also this sci-fi is FIRE cuz the crew don't play.

120 pages 4.25" x 7"

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METROPOLARITY: The manifestation of contrasting principles, tendencies, or lifestyles in an urban system and any reactions resulting from encounters between these forces.