Black Futures Book Club

Black futurist literary lieux compels us to engage in generative dialogue and reflection about the substance of our living as Black folks - to dream our futures, in light of the complexities of our pasts and present. We highlight and even venerate the ancestral, as we grieve the layers of suffering that have been inflicted - the dystopias of Diaspora dealings - and imagine futures unfettered. We consider the possibilities, implications, and ethical considerations of modern technologies and trends in design. Literally, and literarily, what do our (liberated) Black futures comprise?

Each month, we will devote our attention to a selected title from within these vast categories, centering the works of foundational authors such as Octavia E. Butler and Samuel Delany, alongside contemporary writers including Rivers Solomon, N.K. Jemisin, Tomi Adeyemi, and others.