{"271691":{"#nid":"271691","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Androids, Shape Shifters, and Vampires: Black Women\u2019s Afrofuturist Feminist Cultural Productions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMorris sees these women\u2019s cultural productions as part of an epistemology she describes as Afrofuturist feminism. Afrofuturist feminism is a way of knowing and moving through the world that is a strategy for naming and navigating complicated and often vexed histories and visions of the future, one that places people of color at the center and is interested in transgressing conventional systems of power and dominance. Looking at the work of the aforementioned artists and writers, Morris pays pays particular attention to Black women\u2019s engagement of Afrofuturist feminism in mapping out spaces for vivid and robust expressions of Black women\u2019s sexuality and intimacy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESusana M. Morris,\u0026nbsp; an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Auburn, received her Ph.D. from Emory University and her B.A. from Mount Holyoke. A specialist in contemporary African American and African Caribbean literature, she researches the politics of family and intimacy, gender and feminist theory, and black sexualities. Her book, \u003Cem\u003EClose Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women\u2019s Literature\u003C\/em\u003E, was recently published be the University of Virginia Press. She has also published articles in \u003Cem\u003EThe Griot: The Journal of African American Studies\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003ESigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003ESouth Atlantic Quarterly\u003C\/em\u003E,and \u003Cem\u003EWomen\u2019s Studies Quarterly\u003C\/em\u003E. She is also a founding member and contributing writer for the popular feminist blog, The Crunk Feminist Collective.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Afrofuturist soul singer Erykah Badu calls herself \u201can analog girl in a digital world,\u201d she underscores her connection to a pre-digital sensibility and her status as an outsider. Nevertheless, Badu\u2019s brand of futurist music, fashion, and politics troubles her claim to a wholly \u201canalog\u201d identity and suggests a complicated relationship to the intersections of technology, normative notions of progress, and human relationships. This talk argues that Badu, alongside other artists and writers such as Janelle Mon\u00e1e, Alice Smith, Octavia E. Butler, and Tananarive Due navigate complex relationships to futurism and remix tropes from science fiction, fantasy, and horror in ways that both push back against dominant futurist discourse and expands the possibilities for Black women\u2019s understandings of themselves and their places in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Talk by Susana Morris, Auburn University"}],"uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2014-01-28 12:20:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:06:36","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-02-20T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2014-02-20T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-02-20T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-02-20 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-02-20 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-02-20 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"271631":{"id":"271631","type":"image","title":"Susana Morris","body":null,"created":"1449244095","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:48:15","changed":"1475894961","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:21","alt":"Susana Morris","file":{"fid":"198649","name":"smm0006.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smm0006_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smm0006_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13773,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/smm0006_0.jpg?itok=psKn3t7C"}}},"media_ids":["271631"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"id":"145331","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"61831","name":"Afrofuturism"},{"id":"18941","name":"feminism"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1792","name":"Arts and Performance"},{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:anne.pollock@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eanne.pollock@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}