- Rocío Cobo Piñero
Description of the activity.
The diverse ways that Black culture, aesthetics and politics have been preserved, rearticulated and constantly generated anew span the Black Atlantic. One such counterhegemonic artistic project is Afrofuturism, generally defined as a way of looking at the world, an assertion of being, a way of knowing and an aesthetic with Black cultures at its center (Womack 21). Amber Johnson takes it a step further through the term “Transfuturism” and imagines new possible spaces for Black trans subjectivities who transition across, between, within, and beyond binaries. The panel explored forms of narrative, visual and musical futurism that combine elements of science fiction, historical fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western beliefs to imagine alternative futures and utopias.