REIMAGINING BLACK FUTURES
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 4 pm PT/7 pm ET
Join us for a conversation on what we can learn from past movements and how we can reimagine a better future.
Free and open to the public.
Register here: https://freedomtothrive.salsalabs.org/BlackFuturism/index.html
ASL, Captioning, and Espanol available.
About FREEDOM TO THRIVE
Freedom to Thrive works to build a world where safety means investment in people and planet and end the punishment-based criminal and immigration systems.
About Walidah Imarisha
Walidah Imarisha is an educator, writer, public scholar and spoken word artist. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Black Studies Department and Director of the Center for Black Studies at Portland State University. In the past, she has taught at Stanford University, Pacific Northwest College of the Arts and Oregon State University.
She has co-edited two anthologies, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements and Another World is Possible. Imarisha’s nonfiction book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption won a 2017 Oregon Book Award. She is also the author of the poetry collection Scars/Stars, and in 2015, she received a Tiptree Fellowship for her science fiction writing.