"Afrofuturisms, along with disability, refugee, queer, and other futures, use creative speculation and resistance imagination to unnaturalize oppression. A better world is possible."
Looking for Humanity in Science Fiction through Afrofuturism
"This is why my anthropology, in theory and praxis, is inspired by Afrofuturism. It rejects the supremacy of Western schools of praxis and, instead, proposes (and builds on) frameworks that center those being studied as protagonists in the narrative."
"Speculative ethnography can teach us to imagine justice and freedom as attainable in all our first contacts with today’s emerging realities and with the possible, hopefully more just, futures yet to come."
How Indigenous Visionaries Are Reshaping Representation in Pop Culture
"For Thiele, Indigenous Futurism represents “Native people taking back their stories. It’s hard to imagine a world without these stories. In art and life there are unknowns, but once something is created it’s out in the world and in people’s brains, there’s no stopping it.”
"Die Frage der Utopie zu stellen, heißt, nicht länger für den Erhalt des Status quo zu kämpfen. Wer die Welt retten will, braucht einen teuflischen Plan zu ihrer radikalen Veränderung"
"What does the future hold? In our new series “Imagining the Next Future,” Polygon explores the new era of science fiction, to see how storytellers and innovators are imagining the next 10, 20, 50, or 100 years during a moment of extreme uncertainty"
The Realism Of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson On How Science Fiction Works
"We’re all science fiction writers...world civilization right now is teetering on the brink: Science fiction is the realism of our time. Utopia and dystopia are both possible, and both staring us in the face."
(Kim Stanley Robinson)
‘We’ve Already Survived an Apocalypse’: Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi
"Long underrepresented in genre fiction, Native American and First Nations authors are reshaping its otherworldly (but still often Eurocentric) worlds"
From Jadzia Dax to Adira and Gray, all the times Star Trek has challenged societal gender expectations and binaries
"Data's trial in “The Measure Of A Man” sounds very much like current trans and intersex-rights trials in which people are arguing to simply be allowed to exist, with all the dehumanizing language that comes with the so-called “debate.”
"From William Morris to Ursula K. Le Guin and Iain M. Banks, science fiction has provided an outlet for socialist thinkers – offering a break from a bleak political reality and allowing them to imagine a vastly different world."