{"id":2432,"date":"2021-05-25T13:08:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2022-06-22T10:06:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:06:33","slug":"afrofuturism-lecture-series-by-nmblc-is-now-available-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/afrofuturism-lecture-series-by-nmblc-is-now-available-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrofuturism Lecture Series by NMBLC is Now Available Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All three Afrofuturism lectures, centered around <em>Lovecraft County<\/em>, HBO\u2019s <em>Watchmen<\/em>, and Janelle Monae\u2019s \u201cDirty Computer\u201d video, can be viewed on YouTube.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most highly anticipated events of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nmblackhistory.nmblc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2021 New Mexico Black History Festival<\/a> was the lecture series \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nmblackhistory.nmblc.org\/afro-futurism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Afrofuturism: From Our Screens to Reality.<\/a>\u201d The New Mexico Black Leadership Council produced a three-part lecture series exploring aspects of Afrofuturism through the prism of current pop culture. Our esteemed presenters utilized Afrofuturism to spotlight a new generation of Black women superheroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Afrofuturism: \u201cAn open-ended genre combining science fiction, fantasy, and history, to imagine a liberated future through a Black lens.\u201d <\/p><cite>\u2014 NPR\u2019s <em>Throughline<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now you can rewatch, or watch for the first time, all three of these popular videos from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCxhPNmcJhg9p8__PorRlBWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NMBLC\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>. Keep scrolling for more info on the Afrofuturism Lecture Series videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Seeing Africa in Afrofuturism: Hippolyta, Naming, and Lovecraft Country<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Presented by Dr. Belinda Deenen Wallace, University of New Mexico<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Explore the role of Hippolyta as an anti-racist\/anti-imperialist\/anti-colonialist superhero who, through the process of naming, unleashes her superpower and contests institutional racism that seeks to define Black bodies as threatening and unbelonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cWhat happens when Black women use their superpowers to save themselves rather than the world?\u201d <\/p><cite>\u2014 Dr. Belinda Deenen Wallace<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Seeing Africa in Afro Futurism: Hippolyta and Lovecraft Country | Afro Futurism Lecture Series: 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_l56ijoPJfg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:42px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a nose for white supremacy and he smells like bleach&#8221;: Regina King, Subversive Masking, and the Making of Sister Night\u200b<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Presented by Dr. Kimberly Nichele Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Examine how HBO\u2019s <em>Watchmen<\/em> uses masks to demonstrate the easy slippage between police and vigilante justice and to explore the dynamics of race and power in regards to issues of surveillance and policing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cHer superpower is fighting white supremacy.\u201d <\/p><cite>\u2014 Dr. Kimberly Nichele Brown<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"&quot;I&#039;ve Got a Nose for White Supremacy and He Smells Like Bleach&quot;: Afrofuturism Lecture Series 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1CO4yZHk1Q4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Unbought and Unbossed: Janelle Monae&#8217;s Productive Performances at the Intersections of Black Political Consciousness, Black Materiality, and Afrofuturism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Presented by Dr. Andrea L. Mays, Ph.D., University of New Mexico<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">View Janelle Mon\u00e1e\u2019s \u2018Emotion Picture\u2019 Dirty Computer (2018) with an eye towards situating her cultural and political significance as an artist, activist, and performer enacting Aspirational Futures in the Black Diaspora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cDirty computer referenced within the context of this video . . . those things, those elements of imperfection that humans have outside of what social normativity and political normativity are.\u201d<\/p><cite>\u2014 Dr. Andrea L. Mays<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Unbought and Unbossed: Janelle Monae and Afrofuturism | Afrofuturism Lecture Session 3\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/etVPcRD7OIM?start=5&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cAll that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change.\u201d<\/p><cite>\u2014Octavia Butler, <em>Parable of the Sower<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Want to take a deeper dive into Afrofuturism? Here are some recommendations.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afropunk . .&nbsp; the Other Black Experience&nbsp;&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/afropunk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/afropunk.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Janelle Monae: \u201cDirty Computer [Emotion Picture]\u201d video<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Janelle Mon\u00e1e - Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture]\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/268498567?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOctavia Butler: Visionary Fiction\u202c\u201d podcast episode from NPR\u2019s <em>Throughline<\/em> via <em>It\u2019s Been a Minute<\/em> with Sam Sanders &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/22\/970148701\/octavia-butler-visionary-fiction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/22\/970148701\/octavia-butler-visionary-fiction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/16\/968498810\/how-octavia-butlers-sci-fi-dystopia-became-a-constant-in-a-mans-evolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/16\/968498810\/how-octavia-butlers-sci-fi-dystopia-became-a-constant-in-a-mans-evolution<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn Black Panther, Afrofuturism, and Astroblackness: A Conversation with Reynaldo Anderson\u201d via The Black Scholar &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblackscholar.org\/on-black-panther-afrofuturism-and-astroblackness-a-conversation-with-reynaldo-anderson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.theblackscholar.org\/on-black-panther-afrofuturism-and-astroblackness-a-conversation-with-reynaldo-anderson\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfrofuturism takes flight: from Sun Ra to Janelle Mon\u00e1e\u201d via The Guardian &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2014\/jul\/24\/space-is-the-place-flying-lotus-janelle-monae-afrofuturism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2014\/jul\/24\/space-is-the-place-flying-lotus-janelle-monae-afrofuturism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#76385f;color:#76385f\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Welcome to the latest New Mexico Black owned businesses to join our online directory.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Ladyship&#8217;s Bazaar<\/strong>, offering global vintage apparel and accessories. Visit their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theladyshipsbazaar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.theladyshipsbazaar.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>L&amp;M Clean Cans &amp; More<\/strong>, specializing in pressure washing, trash and recycle bin cleaning. Visit their website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmcleancans.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.lmcleancans.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you a New Mexico Black owned business? 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