Afrofuturism in the A.M.

Afrofuturism in the A.M.

By Schetauna PowellArtsDesign
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Afrofuturism in the A.M. episodes

  • Black Family Month: The Striving of Black Women
    This episode I connect the dots between Ma Rainy, Octavia Butler, Zora Neale Hurston, & Michelle Obama as Tiffany and I elaborate on what does it mean to have a Black family in America. I feature the book "We Live for the We" by Dani McClain in the segment I call what are the facts? Then I end this episode with a letter I wrote to my daughter and myself when I was pregnant during the early months of the COVID 19 pandemic.
    1 hr 11 min
  • Black Family Month: A Letter to My Mom

    June 2021 is Black family month for us! The Black Family has been a hot topic in American rhetoric and policy since enslavement. In this episode we explore what it means to have a Black family through the tradition of letter writing that was started by W.E.B. DuBois in the Souls of Black Folk. 

    1 hr 51 min
  • Bonus: Black on Both Sides
    Every year I get a chance to commune with friends from KPFT to speak about my work with the Black Speculative Art Movement. We talk about activism, art, and music. Take a listen to get more context about how to apply Afrofuturist theory in a community context.
    49 min
  • Black Faith Month: Mores of Blackness

    During April 2021, Schetauna and Tiffany think about what tradition means when it comes to Blackness. How does faith line up with tradition? We wonder if the well defined idea of Blackness is serving us or hurting us in the long run.

    1 hr 39 min
  • Black Joy Month - Community Conversation with Janya and Miri

    Our meditation on Black Joy is aided by some community perspectives. This episode I explore the role of Power, Sex, Money, Drugs, and Avarice in our pursuit to achieve joy with Janya Britton and Miri Teresa. We learn about all of the ways we can understand ourselves in relation to these concepts. As we discuss we talk about literary faves Toni Morrison and end the episode with some musical inspiration feat Solange, India Arie, Lizzo and more!

    1 hr 55 min
  • Black Joy Month

    During March 2021 we focused on what it means to be joyful from a Black perspective. This episode Tiffany and Schetauna are joined by Miles to ruminate on the ways we can create joy in our lives. We start off by playing a game of five things, then we warm up by defining joy, and eventually we come to a couple of meaningful conclusions on how to establish joyful lives. 

    1 hr 26 min
  • Black Futures Month

    February 2021 we discussed what the futures industry is. We took a overview look at how the future has been conceptualized by speaking about the colonial era, the industrial revolution, and the digital age. During this month we hosted the Black Speculative Art Movement 2021 Conference, and we speak to Dominic Clay to understand how education and art influences our future planning.

    1 hr 6 min
  • Community Interview with Jonte Vega
    During the month of January we had a conversation with Jonte Vega, to gain an outside perspective on Black health. I asked, How does the mind play a role in our well being? We explore the effects of adverse childhood experiences on our health and meditate on what trauma means in context to living a healthy life.
    18 min

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A weekly meditation podcast that accompanies your creative practice. Utilizing the past and present knowledge of the African Diaspora, we discuss best practices for building a creative life so that we…