Other Planes | Afrofuturism Podcast

Other Planes | Afrofuturism Podcast

Other Planes explores all things Afro/Futurism in cosmic and conscious cultures worldwide, from music to art, science to politics—and beyond. Join host tobias c. van Veen as we undertake audio journeys and interviews with world-class visionaries, creatives, and futurists, from emcees and philosophers to scribes and scholars, programmers and poets. Other Planes covers radical diversity in the speculative arts, including science fiction, film, and comix; cosplay, performance, poetry and posthumanism; cyberfeminism, queer theory, futuristic politics and remix culture; and the global sounds of electronic, experimental, new griot and machine music. Expect to encounter all the dark matter of the radical and interstellar imaginary on Other Planes.

Episodes

September 27, 2018 37 mins
Minister Faust is an award-winning Kenyan-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author, artist and broadcaster. In this episode we discuss his long-awaited sequels to the Coyote Kings and War on Mir series, as well as independent publishing, tips on self-promotion for artists, the white canon of CanLit, and ancient Kemeti philosophy. For more on Minister Faust, and to subscribe to his upcoming Patreon for the serialised Coyote Kin...
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We go on location with performance poet and Afrofuturist cosplayer ZiggZaggerZ the Bastard, author of The Bastard's Manifesto. ZiggZaggerZ discusses race, disability and self-empowerment in her cosplay of Queen of Clubs at Emerald City ComicCon 2016 in Seattle, before we go behind-the-scenes at a cosplay photoshoot in Whistler, BC, featuring ZiggZaggerZ as Queen Hippolyta and Queen Nubia. For more on ZiggZaggerZ, check out: http:/...
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Reporting live from Emerald City ComiCon 2016, Other Planes talks with black cosplayers about identity, race, and gender in cosplay, comix, and action films, speaking with incarnations of the Black Panther, Future Static Shock, Green Lantern, Trunks, Sardonyx, a Vodou Joker and a Ghostbuster.
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For our second podcast, Other Planes speaks with John Jennings, an award-winning graphic novelist, curator, cartoonist, and Associate Professor of Art. John is currently illustrating the first graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s seminal black science fiction work on slavery and time travel, Kindred.
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The first Other Planes podcast features Chicago-based author, filmmaker and innovator Ytasha Womack, author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and director of the black science fiction film Bar Star City.
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