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We are back for another BookStorm! Join in the creative conversation as we construct an expansive fantasy world grounded in shifter magic and queerness. Chimera Chronicles features a gender-fluid, memory-reading, shapeshifter assassin protagonist named Genesis, who learns of their true nature and rebels against the empire that raised them.
It's giving very Mystique, very mysterious, not-so-so-demure, very found family in the mist of game of thrones cultural intrigue! And yes, there are DRAGONS!
Okay, okay, let's get it!
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A chain gang—a group of prisoners that are often Black American working as a punishment. These prisoners were linked together like the chains they wore and prevented anyone from escaping. Much like in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain-Gang All-Stars, the Links of the Chain are tied together. Every action and reaction resulting in consequences for the whole.
This is a novel about being a warrior, a gladiator in a modern age. Everything from the action-packed battles of life and death to the adoring spectators that will just as soon cheer for your victory as your downfall. This is the story about surviving the prison system and the definition of what it means to be human.
Female Rage has been a well loved trope in the fantasy and sci-fi genre from RF Kuang’s Poppy War to Circe by Madeline Miller. But the series that has brought us together today is N.E. Davenport’s The Blood Gift duology.
LGBTQIA are letters that mean a lot of things to a lot of people but often times the “A” is said to be Ally. When in reality it stands for a group of people that struggle not with who they are attracted to but the lack of sexual attraction that seems to power our society, religions and conflicts.
Join us to explore new worlds, new dreams and new possibilities
We are back for another BookStorm! Join in the creative conversation as we construct an expansive fantasy world grounded in shifter magic and queerness. Chimera Chronicles features a gender-fluid, memory-reading, shapeshifter assassin protagonist named Genesis, who learns of their true nature and rebels against the empire that raised them.
It's giving very Mystique, very mysterious, not-so-so-demure, very found family in the mist of game of thrones cultural intrigue! And yes, there are DRAGONS!
Okay, okay, let's get it!
This week, we have a wide-ranging discussion on the intersections of Black queerness and our battles for freedom and liberation throughout history and in narrative storytelling. We engage with real-life Black queer baddie activists in concert with some of our favorites Black queer baddies in sci-fi & fantasy media to zero in on the current challenges of regime, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment and policy, islamophobia, potential war, colonialism, white supremacy, and antiblackness.
We are back with writer and tech professional Diandra Ford-Wing to explore how Black storytelling becomes a vessel for grief, healing, and intergenerational memory.
