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Black folks in SFF & black folks in SFF only (do not respond if this doesn’t apply to you please): Has anyone else noticed how some Afrofuturism fan groups/lists become a gathering space for hoteps & their particular brand of misogyny & racial essentialism?
I’m in two groups & it seems to be getting worse. I feel like the rise of popularity of #afrofuturism & #africanfuturism has attracted a lot of problematically/single issue pro-black kind of cis men who seem to hate women, queers & mixed race folks. Am I just in bad groups?
I tried to post in the group naming what I’m seeing and asking folks for suggestions of other groups and this is what I got from the admin of the Afrofuturism group on FB so I left. 
It’s 2019 and I still come across this version of the Shadow Speaker (Disney/Hyperion) with the whitewashed cover. Someone had this for me to sign at Comic-Con. Inside, I wrote something like “This cover was whitewashed”. 😆
In many ways, this version is a relic. I have a copy of Octavia Butler's Dawn with the whitewashed cover. It's a reminder.
The Shadow Speaker is a post-apocalyptic novel set in Niger where the main character is Igbo and Wodaabe, I clearly describe her as very dark skinned, she shaves her head at the beginning of the book and there is not one white person in the entire novel. #Africanfuturism
On my way back from a great visit to the science fiction collection at Cushing Library @tamulibraries @TAMU - one of the largest in the country. Fantastic exhibition is called "The Stars are Our: Infinite Diversities in Science Fiction & Fantasy" - A quick thread on what I saw
My novel Blood Colony (#3 in my African Immortals Series), about immortals illegally distributing their healing blood in an "Underground Railroad" for the sick, is on display above a collector's edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Also, Lt. Uhura meets Commander @SonequaMG
A marked up manuscript for Samuel R. Delany's Triton (later Trouble on Triton), an homage to Afrofuturistic music queen @JanelleMonae & @nnedi's Binti (#Africanfuturism) alongside Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, ed. by @RosariumBill and @edwardahall.
