Black Queer Baddies: On Freedom, Regimes, & The Hunger Games

Episode Summary

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.

In the midst of so much chaos and oppression, we are really trying to understand how we get free y’all, and we are doing that the best way we know how; through storytelling and black worlding. Come on in the room, community.

Let’s get it!

What we Cover

• How Black Queerness as a framework and lens can help us to see beyond the bounds of white supremacy.

• What does it mean to position Black Queer storytelling at the forefront of liberation?

• How Black Queer authors, characters, and activists always lead the way in revolution

• The Black Queer nuances within presenting Black queer characters in storytelling

• Are we racing to Panem and the Hunger Games as a society?