Black Quantum Futurism | Moor Mother + Rasheedah Phillips | the Gray Area Festival 2017

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Rasheedah Phillips is the Managing Attorney of the Housing unit at Community Legal Services, an author, mother, Afrofuturist, and Aries living and working out of Philadelphia. In her writing, Phillips explores futurism, time travel, and alternative temporalities. She is also the creator of The AfroFuturist Affair, a grassroots events-based organization, and a founding member of Metropolarity Spec Fic Collective. In 2014 she independently published her first speculative fiction collection, Recurrence Plot (and Other Time Travel Tales), and has self-published two anthologies of experimental essays from Black visionary writers called Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice Vol I. Phillips was a 2015 artist-in-residence with West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange as part of Black Quantum Futurism Collective, and is a 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellow. Phillips has work appearing in the book “Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late Capitalist Struggle” and has had work published in the Temple University Political and Civil Rights Journal, Atlanta Black Star, and other publications.

Moor Mother or Moor Mother Goddess is an experimental music project by Camae Defstar, a musician and poet from the United States.

Her work has been labelled “hardcore poetry,” “power electronics,” “slaveship punk,” and “protest music.” Ayewa herself resists categorization, preferring to self-identify through terms such as “time traveller” and “truth teller.” A self-described Afrofuturist, she uses spacetime-bending sound and lyricism to reformulate concepts of memory, history, and the future in an afrocentric or afrodiasporic tradition.

Ayewa is one half of the Black Quantum Futurism collective, along with Rasheedah Phillips of the Afrofuturist Affair. She has performed in the punk band The Mighty Paradocs, and is also the co-founder of Rockers! Philly, an “event series and festival focused on marginalized artists”. In June 2016, Ayewa and Phillips opened the Community Futures Lab, an “afrofuturist community center” in North Philadelphia where they lead workshops and teach-ins, provide space for artistic practice, and fight gentrification in the area.

Her debut album Fetish Bones was named one of the top experimental albums of the year by Rolling Stone, and Pitchfork as well as one of the best albums of the year by The Wire. The album is available on her Bandcamp page, along with several EPs, experiments, and collaborations from earlier in her career.

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