Category: news
Announcements of new releases, events, collaboration works, interviews, etc. Updates, works in progress, and other commentaries in newsletter.
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Unbound Worlds roundtable
I got on a video chat last weekend with Cat Fitzpatrick, Jeanne Thorton, Trish Salah, and Ayşe Devrim for a roundtable now transcribed over at Unbound Worlds SFF magazine. The article is titled Viable Ways For Living: Trans Authors on SFF in Meanwhile, Elsewhere The roundtable is all in reference to Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction…
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Soothsaying with METROPOLARITY
Myself, Ras Cutlass, and Rasheedah Phillips of our beloved METROPOLARITY crew were invited to do a show on PhillyCAM (Community Access Media) in Philadelphia. Join Metropolarity for an intimate night of prophecying, sh*t talking, and secret spilling. Your anxieties about the future sent via email/text/social media will be answered on air in between doses of…
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DESIRE HOPE DESPAIR Speculative Storytelling Streamcast
01/2024 Update: Mixcloud removed file embeds for their free users. I may wind up deleting or altering my Mixcloud episodes, so this post stands as an archive. For now you can click the links for the audio. The audio files as embeds will be reassembled elsewhere TBD. Please enjoy this infrequent sci-fi/speculative storytelling & discussion…
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The Romance of the Colony
I originally wrote this narrative for Mask Magazine [defunct 2021] about the persistent imperialist romance myth of “the colony” in sci-fi. It’s a story about the dreams of The Colony’s extension into outerspace/surveillance state as seen thru lens of Hollywood blockbusters and anime. Better Living Through Chemistry It’s spring, 2011. Your friend is at the…
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Style of Attack Report
A self-published jawn by my unrelenting coven, METROPOLARITY, produced in our fourth year. METROPOLARITY is a DIY sci-fi collective based, bred, and tested in the colliding future-present of Philadelphia. This Style of Attack Report contains select work from Metropolarity’s four founding members, who contribute theory, practice, and experience of home grown speculative visioning for both…
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SHEDDING zine
“WE CRAFTED MEANING OUT OF THINGS WHICH DO NOT REPRESENT US” “MIXED BLOODS Y HALF BREEDS” “TO SAY YOU ARE WHITE IS TO SAY YOU ARE ABSENT OF ANYTHING & ENTITLED BY HISTORY BUT WHAT DO YOU CONTAIN? WHOSE LEGACIES WERE YOU BORN FROM?” I think I made about 50 of these in total. A…
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Ghost in the Shell and Body Crisis
My 2015 visit on episode 04 of illustrator/essayist/critic/badass Annie Mok‘s Lights Go Down movie discussion podcast. Sci-fi writer M Téllez of Metropolarity Collective (who is also my housemate) joins me to talk about a movie they’re an expert in, the 1995 Mamoru Oshii anime of Masamune Shiro’s manga, Ghost in the Shell. Music is from…