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Camae Ayewa (left) and Rasheedah Phillips (right) (Photo by Ryan Collerd)
Time travel is not fantasy for Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa. Through their artistic collaboration as Black Quantum Futurism, they find places where science fiction and reality meet.
“Our work is grounded in Afro-futurism, an umbrella term for envisioning and thinking about Black people in the future,” said Phillips, who serves as managing attorney for the housing unit of Community Legal Services, a free legal aid organization for low-income people in Philadelphia, and writes sci-fi.
“In my work as a housing attorney, I work with people losing their homes and having their futures cut off,” she said. “The work is about developing and building tools to create alternative futures for ourselves and recover our past.” ....

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