[VIDEO] Nalo Hopkinson: Why it’s Radical For Black People to Imagine the Future
“I watched Star Trek as much as my parents would let me.”
In this 2018 video from CBC Arts, author and professor Nalo Hopkinson opens up about writing Brown Girl in the Ring, the power of science fiction, the explosion of Afro-Futurism, and the importance of Marvel’s Black Panther.
Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor Nalo Hopkinson often infuses her fiction with Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling. Her books include the novels Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, and The New Moon’s Arms, and her collection Skin Folk. She was the curator of Six Impossible Things, an audio series of Canadian fantastical fiction on CBC Radio One. She entered Neil Gaiman’s Sandman universe with the comic book limited-series House of Whispers (DC Comic), a story that took readers from the bayou to the Dreaming.
Sci-fi: Why It’s Radical for Black People to Imagine the Future
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