It's Black Speculative Fiction month and we are talking religion, science, and the significance of representation with my friend Silas Tibbs, award-winning writer, director, and executive producer at Dreamdoor Films. Time to reconsider our dichotomies and dive into a future of storytelling that we can all participate in.

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References:

Henry Dumas, The Echo Tree

John Truby, The Anatomy of a Story

Star Trek (original series)

Black Panther

The Lazarus Project

Firefly

Get Out

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0:00 - Introductions How did we get here?

3:18 - There's gotta be more

3:40 - The first time I created anything

4:50 - Visualizing & fan fiction

6:18 - Growing up a PK of academics

6:55 - Gravitating toward Star Trek

7:14 - Star Trek in context

8:47 - Black male representation

9:02 - LeVar Burton

9:48 - Black British speculation

10:14 - The Lazarus Project

10:47 - Watching everything for Black women characters

11:46 - Black Panther

12:10 - Images of SciFi masculinity

12:54 - Chadwick Boseman

15:13 - The Black male actors we've lost

17:00 - Predictions about American film

17:12 - Spirituality & Science

21:42 - Genesis, or science in fast forward

23:55 - What I know vs. what you can receive

24:48 - People who love scifi should do scifi

25:18 - The best kind of collaboration

26:00 - When they want to shrink you

26:48 - Black speculative horror

27:38 - But can you make it scary?

28:05 - The Echo Tree by Henry Dumas

29:06 - Turning the horrible into horror

29:51 - What was Get Out?

30:38 - Defying categories, nuances & belief