Analyzing Janelle Monae's New Dawn
Exolore: facts-based fictional worldbuilding
English - August 24, 2023 10:00 - 54 minutes - 99.3 MBScience Education Fiction Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Moiya is joined by biochemist Dr. Anicca Harriot to discuss Janelle Monae's multi-media afrofuturistic worldbuilding. They talk about Monae's inspiration and New Dawn nuances, while mostly gushing about how talented Monae is.
HOSTED by Dr. Moiya McTier (@GoAstroMo), astrophysicist and folklorist
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Dr. Anicca Harriot is a biochemist, molecular biologist, and chief of community development at Vanguard STEM. Follow her at @13adh13.
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How would you like to swim in an ocean ruled by matriarchal squid, or fly over a planet as it rotates with a swarm of migrating wasps? No, it's not the latest VR craze (... yet); it's Exolore! Exolore helps you imagine other worlds with the help of facts and science. Every other week, host Dr. Moiya McTier invites experts to build a world from scratch or sits down with a fiction fan to dive deep into their favorite worlds. Every episode will make you laugh, go "huh?" and appreciate how special our world really is.
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