#dirtycomputers

[inlivingwritenow]

insecure bringing me back~

[urfavehatescops]

Gajeel Redfox from Fairy Tale hates cops!

requested by @mlmangels, no, wait, @dirtycomputers, no, wait, @poisonbyte, no, wait-

[riotings]

Omg happy birthday!!

thank u artemis!!!!

[gaykratos]

∞!!!

decennium - whitechapel

i share the fears of thousands like me

dont be ashamed, for i am here to teach you

my friend, i know its hard to stay on your feet

but youre part of a brotherhood that never admits defeat

[monaedroid]

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DIRTY COMPUTER (Trailer) an emotion picture by #JanelleMonae @wondaland #WondalandRecords EMOTION PICTURE (definition): a narritive film and accompanying musical album Cindi is back 🙆🙏✨ #CindiMayweather #SciFi #AfroFuturism #DirtyComputers #EmotionPicture #TessaThompson #NewMusic #Music

[sistahscifi]

The Memory Librarian debuting on the New York Times Best Sellers List is history in the making. 98% of authors on the best sellers lists are White* In the 50 years between 1970 and 2020, less than ten speculative fiction titles by Black and Indigenous authors made the New York Times Best Sellers List** As a participant in @brit @beselfmade pitch competition in December, Sistah Scifi crystalized the vision is to double that number in the next ten years. The success of The Memory Librarian is proof that we - as a community - can do that!!! * From Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction by Richard Sean So #RichardSeanSo and Just How White Is the Book Industry? By Richard Sean So in the New York Times December 11, 2020 ** @IsisAsare manually culled this data by reviewing weekly New York Times Best Sellers List on @Wikipedia. If you have a better data point, please let us know!! Reposted from @janellemonae Um wow. “The Memory Librarian” made the #NYTbestsellers list! With this being my first time in the literary world I am very humbled. I wanted to say THANK YOU to every single fandroid who found #TheMemoryLibrarian, who read or listened, who attended the tour, who posted or wrote about this labor of love. None of this kinda stuff happens without your support. It's been such an honor to create with my community of collaborators familyyyyyy @alayadj, @weredawgz, @eve.ewing, @yodelnyc, @shereereneethomas. 🥹 Thank you to @harpervoyagerus for believing in our IMAGINATIONS and the collection of stories I was passionate about putting out. To the booksellers and librarians for making THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN available to readers, THANK YOU. You are NOT forgotten. And to my communities I hold close and constantly rep, you know who you are, I love you. This one’s for you! If you haven’t gotten your copy come join us🙏🏾🤖🤍 #NYTbestseller #afrofuturism #scifi #DirtyComputer #JanelleMonae #BlackAuthorsMatter #BlackWritersMatter #BlackReadersMatter #SistahScifi // @wondaland @monaedroid @harpercollins @free_kgd @nytimes https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc5WpjdrXJN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[panafricanhorror-afrofuturism]

In this post, I will be introducing Afrofuturism as the next topic for discussion and analysis. Afrofuturism, also known as the Black Speculative Arts Movement, is defined as the science fiction and fantastical art of the African Diaspora; it can include science fiction, fantasy, horror, and magical realism. The main themes of the most notable Afrofuturistic works are social justice, slavery metaphors, cautionary tales, magic for healing, creating Black utopias, Black leadership in the future, alternate history: healing the past, Blackness and technology, we will survive and help create the future, and specltaive art to highlight social issues. Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic that allows people of African descent to expand their visions of themselves and their future, and is represented often in Black literature, film, and even music. For example, some of the most important authors in the history of Afrofuturism are Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Octavia Butler, and N.K. Jemisin. Black Panther tends to be the film that most people associate with Afrofuturism because of its visual commentary on Black futurity, colonization/exploitation of Africa, and Black advances in science and technology. Several Black scholars have asserted that Afrofuturism as a cultural movement dates back to the career of jazz legend Sun Ra in the 1950’s. Not only is Sun Ra one of the most notable contributors to the Afrofuturism movement, but he has also had a positive influence on more contemporary music artists such as Janelle Monae. For the purpose of this blog post, I will be specifically highlighting the musical career of Monae and her creativity take on Afrofuturism through music and dance. Monae’s first solo work called “Metropolis” was actually named after and inspired by a 1927 Fritz Lang sci-fi film that was also titled “Metropolis”. Additionally, Janelle Monae’s alter ego named Cindy Mayweather is an android; according to Monae, “the android is just another way of speaking of the new other, and I consider myself to be part of the other just by being a woman and being Black”. Monae treats the art of dance as a tool to fight oppression and even has a list of “10 Droid Commandments” in which she declares that there is “no freedom without dancing”. There is a particular emphasis on the magical power of dancing in Janelle Monae’s Afrofuturistic video for her album titled “Dirty Computer”; in the music video, Monae (Jane 57821) is forced to undergo a “cleansing procedure” that will erase her memories and suppress her will to fight for a better future. The songs featured on Monae’s album and the accompanying music videos are socially conscious and touch on issues such as racial injustice, sexuality/femininity, and Black futurity. My personal favorite is Django Jane because of its strong lyrics and the visuals from “Dirty Computer”. 

[tyreloshinowoart]

Fan art of Janelle Monae (c)

[gsw-artwork]

Dirty Computer

You can see more of my artwork on my website: geoffreysmithwoollams.com/artwork/  and my IG: gsw_artwork

[kookieshope7]

The woman is amazing and I think I'm inlove

[dirtycomputers]

Help me

[yasminprince]

Janelle Monáe 😎🤩😍 I would have loved for this collaboration to last longer.

[jacksongalart]

Doodling my girl Janelle. Not finished yet. Which one looks better? Black and white or color? #janellemonae #wip #digitalart #vignette #dirtycomputer #jacksongalart #procreate #blackgirlmagic #portraitdrawing #fandroid https://www.instagram.com/p/B48-c4kj6bZ/?igshid=nr5eh38q2m3e

[thelemonade-tree]

This is Afrofuturism

Afrofuturism is the escape I never knew I needed. This course has brought something unique and important to academia. It is an excellent way to highlight Blackness that in my education career has been lacking. Traditional education is a sprinkle of Blackness here and there in a white hegemonic setting. Black education looks like slavery, civil rights, Martin Luther King versus Malcolm X, and maybe a dash of police brutality. The story that is told about Blackness and Black history is riddled with struggle and although that is a major foundation resulting from white supremacy, that is not our whole story. I thoroughly enjoy that Afrofuturism addresses the plight of Black people with a critique and presents a vision for our future. An afrofuturist history education looks like Black Panther, Lion’s Blood, Cosmic Slop, and Many Moons. Yes, slavery is a hundreds of years story for Black Americans, but it is Afrofuturism. Enslaved Africans used music, song, and dance to time their work, to uplift their spirits, and communicate in code to coordinate secret meetings and escape in what looked like a good time to their masters and praises to Jesus. Enslaved Africans envisioned themselves in a space and time beyond what they saw before their eyes. These works embody this completely by considering history but putting a twist on it. From imagining Africa having never been colonized to white people being enslaved by Muslim Africans.

Afrofuturism also brings Black women into the light. The groundwork that Black women put into pursuing liberation is often overlooked. As my friend Jada puts it, Shuri ran so that T’Challa could walk! And this is often the story not told. Black women were central to Wakanda in all aspects, in leading, protecting, cultivating, and innovating. Throughout the film, you will find Black women putting in work. During slavery, Black women would cornrow maps onto their heads, beautifully constructing routes to freedom. Woven in their braids would be seeds or rice so they could feed themselves along the way. In Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer, she displays resistance to brainwashing, memory erasing, sexual, symbolic, and physical violence. Her work embodies [Black] women’s empowerment and Black women’s liberation which comes with the liberation of all. Black women are bad mamma jammas, but we are also soft in pynk.

At the end of each day, as Kendrick says, we gon be aight! Our resilience is demonstrated time and time again. Afrofuturism is our past, present, and future in one and it is the education that I absolutely needed. It is what you need, have a seat...

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Aysia-Marie Perkins 

Blog 6 

[aksoria-blog]

Dirty Computer

Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae is an important concept to understand because she is breaking barriers of what it means to have an Afrofuturism. Before analyzing the concept of the film its important to know how she also incorporates the use music to state her statement. The film is sci-fi and it's set in virtual reality future, the protagonist who is an android named Jane 57821 realizes she wants to become human again. In this society, humans are referred to as computers and not as human beings. She tries to break free from the society who is forcibly controlling her and her friends. What I love about the film is that incorporates music and in a sense we are able to feel her feelings. She wants to break free because she feels, loves, and laughs. She’s holding on tight to her personality to what makes her her. And in that society you are seen as dirty.

In the beginning of the film Jane says, “They started calling us computers. People began banishing. And the cleaning began. You were dirty if you looked different. You were dirty if you refused to live the way they dictated. You were dirty if you showed any form of opposition. At all. And if you were dirty. it was only a matter of time.” This intro explains the overall concept of the film and what Janelle Monae is trying to state. This is terrifying future because of how technology and humanity will connect. What I also like about the film is because as she says “you are dirty if you looked different” this is something that is actually happening today on the LGBTQ community and people of color get treated in America. It's a scary thought to think something as technology that help society advance could be used against us. In a sense, Dirty Computer could be seen as a warning for the future. But also as a message to the present to stop listening and trying to adapt into society. To stand up and speak out in what you believe in and to never lose your humanity.

Janelle Monae is more than just an artist because of how she uses Afrofuturism. But I also enjoy the film a lot because she connects with a great author, Octavia Butler who also works with Afrofuturism. Octavia Butler has a novel called, “Parable of the Sower” and is a work about Afrofuturism, she envisions a black future through sci-fi and speculative fiction that is drawn from their cultural and historical heritage. The novel begins in the year 2024 set in Southern California that has become a dystopian landscape. California is ruined by corporate greed, inequality, environmental destruction.

The protagonist, Lauren Olamina, lives in California and like most of the country, society has fallen into deep decline, but the lucky people like Lauren’s family still have homes, food, and water. They live in a neighborhood, surrounded by a wall, police protection has declined in which they must defend themselves from the poor and the emaciated people who wait hoping to steal from the community (Butler 11). Lauren grows up in a terrible future and a lot of the book is focused with religion she has created, Earthseed. She soon leaves her community as a survivor and travels with other survivors and eventually begins walking north with a growing community, the first members of the Earthseed movement. Although, Octivia Butler’s novel is science fiction, it is important to understand because she focuses on Afrofuturism by drawing science fiction, history, and religious texts to draw attention to the past and current challenges Black people are facing in the US and she images a terrifying future of what might happen next.

It is important to understand both Dirty Computer and Parable of the Sower because each introduce a dystopian future of inequality. Butler is a famous black author that began the movement of Afrofuturism to influence other authors, artists, etc to create their version. Which is exactly what Janelle Monae created in Dirty Computer because she still connects to black culture roles and roots. It’s pretty crazy how both artists gives us a warning of what America might become. Dirty Computer argues that marginalized identities are in danger of losing the freedoms that they have long fought for. Dirty Computer tells us that we need to celebrate what makes us different while protecting our freedom and identity because if not we are pretty close to having a future as in the Parable of the Sower.

[monaedroid]

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