Afrofuturism and the Intersectionality of Civil Rights, the Space Race, Hip Hop, and Black Femininity

GEEK: Sci-Fi (Rabun)

Saturday October 19, 2019 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm


African American women have been early adopters of national and international initiatives, such as abolitionism, civil rights, women’s rights, space travel, and hip hop—from Maria W. Stewart’s anti-slavery and women’s rights speeches in the 1830s, to Mary Talbert’s launch of the Niagara Movement in 1905 as a precursor to the NAACP, to Katherine Parker’s career at NASA in the 1950s, to Sylvia Robinson’s launch of hip-hop into the mainstream in the 1970s, to Tarana Burke’s #MeToo movement in the 2000s. This panel will discuss the contributions of Black women to the progression of the underpinnings of speculative fiction.


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