This week on Feminist Magazine : with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST … Sehba Sarwar talks to Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed and Neelanjana Banerjee about needs amidst LA’s South Asian community to create connections past national borders. Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed is a political strategist, storyteller, and artist. She has hosted a podcast Good Muslims/Bad Muslims and is a recipient of an award from President Obama’s White House as a Champion of Change in Art and Storytelling. Neelanjana Banerjee is the Managing Editor of Kaya Press and teaches at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. Both will be reading from their works at an event, South Asian Writers Resist, that Sehba is hosting virtually via Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center this week on January 21.
THEN … From Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time to Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu, Afrofuturism has become part of our culture. Filmmaker and author Ytasha Womack defines Afrofuturism as “the intersection between black culture, technology, liberation and the imagination, with some mysticism thrown in, too. ”On this episode of Making Contact – Afrofuturism: 3 Women You Need to Know – authors Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, and Jewelle Gomez discuss the role of history and politics in their work, the monsters that haunt their stories and the importance of imagining the future.
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AND More resources from today’s show:
https://www.equalitylabs.org
https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/bham_history.htm
https://indianewengland.com/2020/01/indian-americans-protest-across-the-us-from-california-to-massachusetts-against-caa-nrc-npr-on-r-day/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxq4ab/kashmir-has-been-under-siege-for-a-whole-year-heres-a-timeline
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