F232. New Suns: Afrofuturist and Cyborg Aesthetics

Room 214B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Friday, March 6, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

Octavia Butler writes, “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” Taking a cue from Butler—Afrofuturist and disabled writer—this panel will discuss and demonstrate some new suns. What can a poem do in the 21st century? What is the strange new grammar of screens? How do we create and conscript images for activism? Panelists work in multiple genres including creative nonfiction, mixed media, performance, and poetry.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: F232.pdf
Supplemental Document 1: Alyssa_Moore_-_AWP_2020_-_Panel.docx
Supplemental Document 2: AWP_Access_Copy_.docx

Participants

Moderator:

Karolyn Gehrig is a queer disabled artist, writer, advocate and performer known for creating #HospitalGlam, a social media movement which uses site-specific photography to reclaim clinical space, enable self-advocacy, and boost disabled voices. Her work has appeared in the Hammer Museum and Guernica.

Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist, and disability rights activist. Her essays have appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and Tin House. Her books include The Amputee's Guide to Sex, The Colony, The Book of Goodbyes, and Cyborg Detective.

Harmony Holiday is the author of Negro League Baseball, winner of the Motherwell Poetry Prize. She has a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Columbia University, and she runs a boutique production house devoted to the crossing between archiving, improvisation, myth, and black music.

Alyssa Moore is an editor, screenwriter, and visual poet who holds degrees from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received fellowships and taught fiction and poetry, and Harvard University. Her work explores queerness, blackness, and digital intimacy.

Cade Leebron holds an MFA from The Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, American Literary Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.

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