Two bestselling authors in one go: Fair Fight founder Stacey Abrams (left) will be in conversation with celebrated sci-fi/fantasy novelist N. K. Jemisin at SXSW Online this March. (Photo Credits: Abrams photo courtesy of Fair Fight. Jemisin photo courtesy of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.)
The Venn diagram sweet spot of people who are going to fangirl over voting rights advocate
Stacey Abrams and sci-fi/fantasy author
N. K. Jemisin is – I suspect – very large. I’m in the overlap. You’re in it, too, right? SXSW is definitely in it.
The multidiscipline festival – which is going 100% virtual this year – led today’s programming announcement with news of Abrams and Jemisin’s keynote conversation together. One assumes their shared reputations for trailblazing – Abrams with her historic voter mobilization in Georgia, Jemisin with that whole three-time Hugo Award for Best Novel thing (note: three times
Georgia Republicans have reportedly created a Political Action Committee to “stop”
Stacey Abrams from running for governor in 2022.
Excuse me while I laugh out loud for a moment.
Indeed it is comical that the “stop the steal” and ”save America” crowd are so fearful of a powerful Black woman, so much so that they’ve created an entire operation to thwart her political efforts.
If you didn’t believe that the Republican Party circa 2021 was backward, shrinking, sexist, and yes racist, you now know. There is no one more qualified to be Georgia’s governor than Stacey Abrams. Aside from being a lawful citizen of Georgia, Abrams served as Georgia’s House minority leader in the state legislature; attended the prestigious Spelman College in Atlanta, and obtained her Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School.
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