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Speculative fiction writers have long posited futures of various kinds: dystopias and utopias, worlds of resurgent wilderness, ecocidal wastelands, cybernetic supercities, and so on. Even in 2023 so much of the speculative future in popular culture is ruinous, extractive, and violent, where settler colonialism, white supremacy, and corporate capitalism continue to set the imaginative horizons of possibility, and where BIPOC peoples are besieged at best or absent at worst. Yet Black and Indigenous writers continue to offer otherwise futures that speak to more hopeful, complicated, and collective visions, extending the reach of Afrofuturist and Indigenous futurist possibilities. Two such writer-visionaries—Terese Mason Pierre and Chelsea Vowel—come together in conversation on Black and Indigenous futurisms, their challenges, possibilities, and provocations, ranging from the everyday to the intergalactic. Hosted by Daniel Heath Justice.

Closed captioning is available at this event.