“’You don’t have to be Eurocentric to make it to the future,’ said Andrea Hairston, a professor of theater and Afro-American studies at Smith College in Massachusetts, whose side gig happens to be writing award-winning science fiction. ‘We have to figure out how to be different together. [And t]hat is what storytelling is all about, particularly the mythological storytelling that we do.’” At Hero Complex, Mindy Farabee explores the expanding diversity of science fiction and fantasy.