Queer Questions Interview: Marvin K. White
Marvin K. White, author of last rights (finalist for Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award), nothin’ ugly fly (finalist for Lambda Literary Award), Our Name Be Witness and Status, is a poet, performer, playwright, visual artist and community arts organizer....
Juba Kalamka disrupts normative notions of sex and gender
Queer Questions is a series of short Q&A’s with writers featured in The Black Futurist Projects: New Queer Black reading and performance on July 6th. Check out the Facebook event page for more info and to RSVP. Juba Kalamka is a bisexual artist/activist most...
Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghenes Nigerian Dyke Holy Text
Queer Questions is a series of short Q&A’s with writers featured in The Black Futurist Projects: New Queer Black reading and performance on July 6th. Check out the Facebook event page for more info and to RSVP. Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene is an Ijaw and Urhobo...
Oakland loves Black Futurists Speak: New Queer Black
The turnout at Saturday's Black Futurists Speaks: New Queer Black reading proved that Oakland's qpoc literary scene is huge and vibrant and ready for more events that speak to their styles and sensibilities. Of course, I'm sure it had a lot to do with the...
A Poem for Chris Brown
From One Virginian to Another You sir, have been dipped in asshole sauce and baked to an embarrassing glaze. You sir, wrapped in tabloid newsprint, are stinking up the kitchen with your fishiness. You Chris, will be forever remembered as the singer who gave Virginia-...
Introducing our 1st book! Black Futurists Speak: an anthology of new black writing
A lot of projects on the plate for 2013 including some that I've been planning since 2012. 1st up is this beauty. I'm proud to announce the release of Black Futurists Speak, the 1st Black Futurist Literary Anthology from the squad. Based on the performance we did...
17 and Cops: Coming of age as a young black man
While 27 seems to be the magic number for rock stars and entertainers, 17 appears to be the golden age when young black men step into their own dark netherworlds. And while the luckiest of us might avoid a pine box or jail cell,...
Southern Living: Richmond, VA
I'm sitting beside a bridge, beside a canal close to the James River, a paperback Cometbus beside me, the sun setting while the Silversun Pickups crank out a set about 20 feet across the water. On the benches near me are young families and old people-others who...
Now is the New Black: Futuresurrealtechnopunknationalism & the New Black Imagination
I was a little shocked this morning when I was checking emails and upcoming events and realized that I was in the future. The new black is now. If the “Attending” numbers on Facebook events are accurate, then tomorrow night the African American Arts and Cultural...
35 Years of Gratitude
I wrote the original draft of this post leaned back deep, feet kicked up on the seat of a train speeding through the Italian countryside from Perugia, Italy into the chic colossus of Rome. A few days prior, in between sessions at an international journalism festival,...
