“There Are Black People in the Future” - Alisha B. Wormsley 

“As Audre Lorde has written, ‘Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of.’ Black feminisms have dared to imagine worlds where our humanity is affirmed and our belief in Black futures reigns. Our collective imaginings are boundless and liberatory. Joy as an act of resistance reminds us to celebrate because every day something has tried to kill us and failed.” 

- “Black Joy as Resistance” by Ariana Curtis (Strait & Conwill, 2023, p. 109)

Reference: Strait, K. M. A., & Conwill, K. (2023). Afrofuturism: a history of Black futures. Smithsonian Books.

TODAY’S PRACTICE: Watch an Afrofuturist movie.

Click here to find the “Ultimate List of Afrofuturist Movies”.

Still not sure which film to watch? Below are a few suggestions!

Black Panther (2018)

See You Yesterday (2019)

Space Is the Place (1974)

Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Coming to America (1988)

The Blackening (2022)

The Wiz (1978)