Other Planes covers all things Afrofuturism from Planet Earth to the beyond. Hosted by tobias c. van Veen, Other Planes features soundposts, audio journeys, and interviews with Afrofuturists from all star systems, from emcees to philosophers, scribes to scholars, painters to poets. Other Planes covers the black speculative arts, including black science fiction, film, and comix; black cosplay and alien becomings; the black fantastic and posthumanism; futuristic black politics and remix culture; and the many sounds of black electronic, experimental, new griot, and machine music. Expect all shapes and forms of the interstellar imaginary on Other Planes.
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2018-09-28 | Minister Faust is an award-winning Kenyan-Canadian science fiction and magical realist author, artist and broadcaster. In this episode we discuss his long-awaited sequels to the Coyote Kings and War on Mir series, as well as independent publishing, tip... |
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2018-06-23 |
Other Planes 04: ZiggZaggerZ the Bastard, Performance Poet & Cosplayer We go on location with performance poet and Afrofuturist cosplayer ZiggZaggerZ the Bastard, author of The Bastard's Manifesto. ZiggZaggerZ discusses race, disability and self-empowerment in her cosplay of Queen of Clubs at Emerald City ComicCon 2016 in... |
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2016-06-24 | Reporting live from Emerald City ComiCon 2016, Other Planes talks with black cosplayers about identity, race, and gender in cosplay, comix, and action films, speaking with incarnations of the Black Panther, Future Static Shock, Green Lantern, Trunks, S... |
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2016-06-21 | For our second podcast, Other Planes speaks with John Jennings, an award-winning graphic novelist, curator, cartoonist, and Associate Professor of Art. John is currently illustrating the first graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s seminal black ... |
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2016-06-02 | The first Other Planes podcast features Chicago-based author, filmmaker and innovator Ytasha Womack, author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and director of the black science fiction film Bar Star City. |
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