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SUMMARY:Just As Quare As You Wanna Be:  On Afrofuturism as Cultural Aesthe
 tic and Method for Liberating Black Bodies - Charlena M. Wynn
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:Informed by Black feminism\, queer theory of color\, and Afrof
 uturist theory\, Wynn will present a new series of artwork exploring the m
 yth of Drexciya\, a mythology created by a late 1990s Detroit band of the 
 same name\, who envisioned a half-aquatic\, half-human creature emerging f
 rom the enslaved Africans who were tossed overboard during the middle pass
 age. Of this new series of artwork\, they envision creating a new narrativ
 e in the mid-Atlantic\, disrupting the current archive of the Middle Passa
 ge.\n\nLooking to the history of erasure of Black femmes\, queer\, and gen
 der non-conforming people as a form of violence\, they will discuss the wa
 ys in which water has shaped their cultural production and its connection 
 to fantastical forms like Afrofuturism. Charlena will also discuss the mov
 es they have made to theorize Afrofuturism as a liberatory project for Afr
 ican peoples everywhere.\n\n*Charlena M. Wynn* is an artist\, graduate stu
 dent\, and scholar from the United States\, interested in African Diaspora
  art and Afrofuturism as a method of decolonizing modernist curatorial and
  art education practices. Born and raised in the Southern United States\, 
 they are deeply connected to their southern identity as a Black queer arti
 st and use these experiences in their artwork. In a world where Black\, qu
 eer\, fat\, and disabled bodies are not valued\, Charlena M. Wynn is infor
 med by Afrofuturist philosophy\, not only as a cultural aesthetic but phil
 osophy of history informed by African Diasporic epistemologies.\n
LOCATION: Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road
 \, room GS1
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