Latest Afrosurrealism Podcast Episodes

OP/05 Minister Faust: SF&F Author, Artist & MF Galaxy Broadcaster

Other Planes | Afrofuturism Podcast - September 28, 2018 00:52 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Minister Faust is an award-winning Kenyan-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author, artist and broadcaster. In this episode we discuss his long-awaited sequels to the Coyote Kings and War on Mir series, as well as independent publishing, tips on self-promotion for artists, the white canon of C...

Other Planes 05: Minister Faust: SF&F Author, Artist & MF Galaxy Broadcaster

Other Planes | Afrofuturism Podcast - September 28, 2018 00:52 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Minister Faust is an award-winning Kenyan-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author, artist and broadcaster. In this episode we discuss his long-awaited sequels to the Coyote Kings and War on Mir series, as well as independent publishing, tips on self-promotion for artists, the white canon of C...

Other Planes 04: ZiggZaggerZ the Bastard, Performance Poet & Cosplayer

Other Planes | Afrofuturism Podcast - June 23, 2018 22:08 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
We go on location with performance poet and Afrofuturist cosplayer ZiggZaggerZ the Bastard, author of The Bastard's Manifesto. ZiggZaggerZ discusses race, disability and self-empowerment in her cosplay of Queen of Clubs at Emerald City ComicCon 2016 in Seattle, before we go behind-the-scenes at a...

Other Planes 03: Black Cosplay at Emerald City ComiCon

Other Planes | Afrofuturism Podcast - July 20, 2016 18:05 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Reporting live from Emerald City ComiCon 2016, Other Planes talks with black cosplayers about identity, race, and gender in cosplay, comix, and action films, speaking with incarnations of the Black Panther, Future Static Shock, Green Lantern, Trunks, Sardonyx, a Vodou Joker and a Ghostbuster.

Other Planes 02: John Jennings, Comix Book Illustrator & Storyteller

Other Planes | Afrofuturism Podcast - June 21, 2016 17:57 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
For our second podcast, Other Planes speaks with John Jennings, an award-winning graphic novelist, curator, cartoonist, and Associate Professor of Art. John is currently illustrating the first graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s seminal black science fiction work on slavery and time trav...

Other Planes 01: Ytasha Womack, Author of Afrofuturism

Other Planes | Afrofuturism Podcast - June 02, 2016 20:35 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
The first Other Planes podcast features Chicago-based author, filmmaker and innovator Ytasha Womack, author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and director of the black science fiction film Bar Star City.