Overview

QTPOC & BIPOC students including MSW Student Mariel Eaves talk with writer, adrienne maree brown about how to use Afrofuturism, the philosophy of Black imagination & liberation, as a path to the future.

How to Join

In-Person:

Join us in FPG Union 2401 to view the conversation while building community. Followed by a reception with vegan & GF food.

Online:

The conversation will also be streamed via YouTube for community members who are away from campus, cannot attend in-person events, or for any other reason can't make it to the Union. The link will be sent out to all registrants at 4:40 PM on the day of the event.

About adrienne maree brown:

adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia’s Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. (https://adriennemareebrown.net)

About Afrofuturism:

Afrofuturism is a genre that embraces the idea and often envisions a world that centers justice and cultural, sexual, and gender identities alongside technology, art, music, fashion, literature, and science fiction. Afrofuturism also describes visions of the future through the experience and perspective of African diaspora communities and their ability to help guide communities into the future.