[Sfts-students] possible discussion topic: Afrofuturist Art

[Josh Pearson]

This sounds fantastic.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 9:19 AM Cathy Thomas <cthom064 at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Thanks!
> I am likely going to focus on gender representations and “rebuilding" the
> Black woman in A/F through atonement and adornment in art so maybe if folk
> haven’t read it: "Princess Steel.”  This feels a bit foundational, almost
> ekphrastic.
> https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b236-i001
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> On Jul 24, 2020, at 7:53 AM, John Jennings <johnj at ucr.edu> wrote:
>
> I am definitely interested.
>
> J
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 6:22 PM Sherryl Vint <sherrylv at ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Cathy Thomas, a post-doc current at UCR working with Professor Hopkinson,
>> was wondering if there is interest to schedule a time to have a zoom
>> conversation about Afrofuturist art. Right now on our every two weeks
>> schedule we are booked through August 25, but I could set this up for
>> September 8th if people would like.
>>
>> I attach here a couple of documents shared by Cathy that will give you
>> some context.
>>
>> thanks everyone,
>> Sherryl
>>
>> Sherryl Vint
>> Professor
>> Director, Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science
>> Editor, *Science Fiction Studies*
>> Editor, *Science and Popular Culture* book series
>> <https://www.palgrave.com/in/series/15760>
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