A Juneteenth Reflection: What’s the Future Got To Do With It?

virtual event; open to all mentees, all mentors, and the public

Join Girls Write Now and Howard University professor and Founder of the writing for healing non-profit SOAR, Kimberly Collins, for a reflective Juneteenth discussion that allows us to excavate our origin stories while healing for our future.

Afrofuturism pays homage to our ancestral past to better understand our present. In this genre that centers Black history and culture and incorporates science-fiction, technology, and futuristic elements into literature, music, and the visual arts, we will explore the roots of a form whose tentacles reach beyond Tina Turner’s blues and Octavia Butler’s dystopian novels to the manifestation of our ancestors’ prayers.