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Book review: A musician celebrates difference and resistance in well-crafted science fiction stories
The collection tackles afrofuturism, the manipulation of memory and mind control, and explores further the themes introduced in Janelle Monae’s 2018 album, Dirty Computer
On her 2018 album, Dirty Computer, musician, actor and writer Janelle Monáe explored what it’s like to be a queer, black woman in a world that regards heteronormative whiteness as the default. There, her differences were a source of celebration. Now she has revisited them in a collection of five science fiction short stories (all co-written) about Afrofuturism and the power of collective action.
The dystopian setting is Little Delta, an expansion of our current ...
