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It's Lit Afrofuturism
🕑 Added 2020-03-18 21:21:54 +0000 UTCLindsay presents the latest episode of It's Lit via PBS Digital Studios. Her co-host Princess Weekes is here to talk to you all about the Afrofuturism literary movement. Be sure to subscribe to the Storied YouTube channel to receive updates when new It's Lit episodes are released every three weeks!
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Tim Hammack
I liked to believe that eventually we'd all "blend together" into a brownish skin tone... yet India has been mixed for over 1,000 years and still "fair-skinned" actors dominate Bollywood, are considered beauty epitomes, and a "fair-skinned bride" is still a marital ideal.... :( Will we ever rise above skin tone??????
G-man
Love the broadening of perspective in this one.
Lindsay Ellis
Thank you for this feedback. Unfortunately, we are not the ones who make the thumbnails. All that is handled by the post production team hired by PBS. --Elisa (Lindsay's assistant)
Haldon Lindstrom
Great episode! Thank you for highlighting the different threads of futurism within the African and African-American literary community, and that not all black sci-fi authors write with the same lens or perspective. You gave me a bunch of new authors to explore - I've read Butler, but Hopkins and Okorafur are on my list now. Thanks!
Nnedi Okorafor specifically refers to her work as Africanfuturism, not Afrofuturism -- featuring her work in the thumbnail right above a description she rejects seems disrespectful to me, even if you talk about it positively in the video itself http://nnedi.blogspot.com/2019/10/africanfuturism-defined.html?m=1
It's penetrating TV too. Months before "Black Panther", HBO already committed to testing the waters by giving Terence Nance an experimental sketch-comedy show. I've heard great things about it, and every step to a less homogenized media landscape is nice.
