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SUMMARY:How Scifi/Afrofuturism can help us survive( the next four ye
	ars) from Tananarive Due + Steven Barnes - January 17th 2025
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DESCRIPTION:\n	How Scifi/Afrofuturism can help us survive( the next four
	 years) from Tananarive Due + Steven Barnes - January 17th 2025\n\n	https:
	//aalbc.com/tc/topic/11421-how-scifiafrofuturism-can-help-us-survive-the-n
	ext-four-years-from-tananarive-due-steven-barnes/\n\n\n\n	\n\n\n\n	 \n\n\
	n\n	IF YOU DIDNT CLICK THE LINK ABOVE\n\n\n\n	 \n\n\n\n	\n\n\n\n	THOUGHTS
	 AS I VIEWED\n\n\n\n	 \n\n\n\n	0:03 Octavia Butler's grave is still stand
	ing\, survived the fires\n\n	0:05 introductions by Steven Barnes + Tananar
	ive Due\n\n	image 1\n\n\n\n	\n\n	0:09 Steven says Afro futurism is our\, b
	lack peoples\, flavor of science fiction\n\n	image 2\n\n\n\n	\n\n	image 3\
	n\n\n\n	\n\n	image 4\n\n\n\n	\n\n	0:11 \n\n	Science Fiction principles\, 
	one of three: what if\, if only\, if this goes on\n\n	0:15 How Steven Barn
	es met Octavia Butler\n\n	image 5\n\n\n\n	\n\n	0:16 \n\n	Butler said huma
	n beings are hierarchal\, and people put themselves higher on the levels.\
	n\n	0:17 \n\n	At Clark university was the first black science fiction con
	vention\n\n	image 6\n\n\n\n	\n\n	0:20 Octavia Butler was honest about the 
	conditions and had a pessimism that she questioned into her work\n\n	image
	 7\n\n\n\n	\n\n	image 8\n\n\n\n	\n\n	image 9\n\n\n\n	\n\n	0:31 Steven says
	 Creating art is a way of communicating things in words\n\n	0:32 Ray Bradb
	ury\, who didn't drive\n\n	image 10\n\n\n\n	\n\n	image 11\n\n\n\n	\n\n	0:3
	4 Steven felt Ray Bradbury's work was the warmest that he read Steven and 
	his girlfriend at the time\, took a story to Ray Bradbury . Great story on
	 steven getting his first two letters from Ray Bradbury. \n\n	0:36 Butler
	 was penniless till an mcarthur grant. Steven admitted he wasn't intereste
	d in living in poverty. he had to compromise his own voice working with a 
	team to make a wage.\n\n	0:39 It is funny\, at times I am so serious. Many
	 around me suggest I need to lighten up. Maybe I shall listen:) \n\n	Ray 
	Bradbury said: I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think li
	fe is too serious to be taken seriously. \n\n	Tananarive said Butler beca
	me despondant at times. \n\n	0:42 Bradbury's rules for writing. \n\n	ima
	ge 12\n\n\n\n	\n\n	Write short stories\, quantity creates quality.\n\n	Tel
	l the truth first\n\n	Don't think too hard\, especially in the first draft
	.\n\n	Write what you love\n\n	Study the work of the masters\, the work tha
	t has survived for generations\n\n	Take off the safety harness\n\n	Use eve
	ry experience that touches you\n\n	Indulge in your own personal madness\n\
	n	Don't be afraid to write crap\, either\n\n	Get comfortable with the idea
	 of work\n\n	image 13\n\n\n\n	\n\n	image 14\n\n\n\n	\n\n	image 15\n\n\n\n	
	\n\n	0:50 Tananarive's work and Steven's work\n\n	image 16\n\n\n\n	\n\n	My
	 thought: both writers visual examples display themes that reflect themsel
	ves. \n\n	0:54 \n\n	Barnes said if you see a lack\, you should write tha
	t lack\n\n	0:59 \n\n	image 17\n\n\n\n	\n\n	image 18\n\n\n\n	\n\n	1:02 wri
	ting futurism course [ www.writerwebinar.com ] \n\n	image 19\n\n\n\n	\n
	\n	image 20\n\n\n\n	\n\n	image 21 \n\n\n\n	\n\n	1:04 they will teach how 
	to teach\n\n	image 22\n\n\n\n	\n\n	image 23\n\n\n\n	\n\n	1:07 marketing to
	ols from Due and Barnes\, and aids. Affordable. \n\n	image 24\n\n\n\n	\n\
	n	image 25\n\n\n\n	\n\n	1:10 stress and strain\n\n	image 26\n\n\n\n	\n\n	1
	:12  breathing\, diaphragmatic breathing\n\n	image 27\n\n\n\n	\n\n	image 
	28\n\n\n\n	\n\n	image 29\n\n\n\n	\n\n	Questions and Answers\n\n	1:25 \n\n
		Steven Barnes: if you are just by yourself\, you have to take care of you
	rself. Morning ritual of movement gratitude\, motion. \n\n	1:28 They have
	 a free zoom meeting every weekend\n\n	1:44 [ https://www.steven-barnes.c
	om/live-classes ] \n\n	steven barnes lion blood\n\n	https://a.co/d/aV8XT
	DJ\n\n\n\n	 \n\n\n\n	\n\n\n\n	https://iloveafrofuturism.com/\n\n
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