Since my first encounter with the novel nearly two decades ago, there have been few, if any, books and even fewer authors who have meant as much to me as
Kindred and Octavia Butler, said Jacobs-Jenkins in a statement. It has been the highlight and honor of my career thus far to try and finally bring this timeless story to life and especially at FX, whose catalogue of bold, thought-provoking, and cutting-edge television has been an endless source of inspiration and delight.
Kindred tells the story of Dana, a young Black aspiring writer who finds herself being pulled back and forth in time; from her life in modern-day Los Angeles, all the way back to a plantation in the nineteenth-century, where she must confront the very real horrors of slavery. As she travels between the past and the present, she discovers that not only does she have familial ties to the place she keeps being brought back to, but also that her present is echoing strains of the past, and that it s up
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Star Trek: Discovery, which have Afrofuturist influences and components, are mainstream examples of the genre, signaling a cultural shift that is long overdue. In an ever-changing world that is adapting to the call for better representation of Blackness, visionary pioneers such as Tim Fielder are sitting at the center of it all.
Fielder, an OG Afrofuturist, according to his fans, is also a seasoned comics writer, graphic novelist, illustrator, cartoonist, and he has even presented his own TEDxTalk on Visual Afrofuturism. Fielder is an established veteran in the world of Visual Afrofuturism and comics, but now he s pioneering a new frontier in the genre, becoming the first author to publish a fully rendered Afrofuturist graphic novel with an original story from a major publishing company.