“Oya: The Coming of the Orishas”
Watch Nigerian writer and director Nosa Igbinedion’s Oya: The Coming Of The Orishas here.
“Four Continental Black Afrikan Speculative Fiction Artists”
Chronicles of Harriet profiles Black African artists who work in speculative fiction: Loyiso Mkizse; Tobe “Max Spectre” Ezeogu; Setor Fiadzigbey; and the artist of Kiro’o Games.
Black Victoriana
A gallery of photographs of people of African descent from the Victorian era. (Via Kit Marlowe)
“You Don’t Have To Be Eurocentric To Make It To The Future”
“’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 […]
Forty-One Black Women In Horror Writing
Sumiko Saulson shares a list of twenty Black women in horror writing. “February is Black History Month here in the United States. It is also Women in Horror Month (WiHM). As an Ambassador for WiHM, and as a woman of color (I am Black and Jewish) who is […]
“Michelle Rodriguez Made Me Cry At Comic-Con”
Kate Conway writes about how powerful she found the Women Who Kick Ass Panel in San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall C. “These dudes onstage weren’t selling themselves to me; they didn’t even care what I thought. Here we were, in the biggest room at Comic-Con, and I only felt […]
The Cultural Gutter 