Our segment on Black Storytelling starts off with the narrative of Secunda, radio host of Imagine a World on All Real Radio located in 3rd Ward Houston, TX. We think through timelessness of childhood and come across the question: why are children policed and what does that do to joy? As we work our way through memories of childhood as it existed in the past vs. childhood as it exists now we begin to realize that the constant is Motherhood. We wrap our conversation with some musing on the shared story and how important it is to American Culture. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

In this brief recap we listen to the voices of Valerie Wade an archivist in Houston, TX, Peyton a singer who studied at HSPVA, and Dr. Toniesha Taylor who serves as the Director of the Communications Department at Texas Southern University. We reflect on the lessons learned during these conversations and prepare for our season on Black Storytelling. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

In this final segment on #blackcreativity we speak to Peyton a 24 year old singer from Houston, TX. In this segment Peyton explores how her education, community, and spiritual practices contribute to her understanding of herself in the face of colorism. We muse on how a designed life can increase peace of mind and aide the cultivation of a creative practice. Lastly, we think about how generational experiences inform our understanding of art and learning. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

It is Black Creativity Season! As we begin our meditation on what role Black Creativity plays in Black culture and history we have the absolute pleasure to engage Valerie Wade, Houston based archivist and lead consultant of Lynnfield Historical. In our conversation we explore why African Americans "keep things" such as plastic bags, worn down pencils, and Ivy clippings from our grandma's gardens. We address the crisis of preservation in Black communities and tie how getting our children involved in creating family history projects might just be a solution. Lastly, we round the conversation out with thoughts on how objects communicate through time and what that means for education. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

Preview the season of Black Love from Jan thru February of 2022 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

Schetauna introduces March/April's topic "The Creative Process" while recapping the topic of "Black Love". In this transitory episode Schetauna celebrates herself with the announcement of her acceptance to an MFA program. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

To wrap up our conversation on Black Love I speak with my co-conspirator Jalyn Gordon. We review our previous conclusions on Black Love and continue to ruminate on the question, will Black Love save us all? My community member Jalyn says "Yes, but not without accountability". We explore what accountability means as we transition from design thinking surrounding Black Love into design thinking about Black Creativity and the creative process. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

Today we get a chance to have a community conversation with good sis Latifah Wright on all things Waiting to Exhale. During the conversation we ruminate on why this film is the perfect way to start of the 2022 new year, and explore how the iconic film helps us understand the politics of Black Love in Capitalism. We ask, will Black Love save us all (?) and use the stories of the women in Terry McMillan's to help us answer that query. Join us for our community conversation this January 2022! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

A weekly meditation podcast that accompanies your creative practice. Utilizing the past and present knowledge of the African Diaspora, we discuss best practices for building a creative life so that we may design our future. Sponsored by Artivism Community Art; Hosted by Schetauna Powell. Listen on All Real Radio and all streaming platforms. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

We explore what Black faith and talk about art science and religion --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

We speak about Black futures. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

Learn more about the reason and the mission of our creative production. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

This episode Schetauna calls her cousin Essie in Chicago, IL to ask her about the Black Family. During the conversation Essie helps grounds us in what Black family was like in Missippi, speaks about the Great Migration, and how family is tied to faith.   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

In 2018 Schetauna had a chance to chat about her work in the arts, her knowledge about Afrofuturism, and her opinion on pop culture.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

Every year I get a chance to commune with friends from KPFT to speak about my work with the Black Speculative Art Movement. We talk about activism, art, and music. Take a listen to get more context about how to apply Afrofuturist theory in a community context. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

During the month of January we had a conversation with Jonte Vega, to gain an outside perspective on Black health. I asked, How does the mind play a role in our well being? We explore the effects of adverse childhood experiences on our health and meditate on what trauma means in context to living a healthy life. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

In popular culture, Afrofuturism is best known by its sci-fi imagery depicting the African Diaspora utilizing technology as a tool of empowerment; or  an imagining that employs other worldly environments to emphasize the Alien-nation popularized by the work of Sun-Ra. Maybe many entered the world of Afrofutrism through the gateway located in Wakanda? In whatever ways you have come to this place where African diasporic culture meets at the crossroad of speculation, one central question must have crossed your mind: how can I create this future I see so vividly depicted by many but well understood by few?  This guiding question is at the center of our meditation: How can we create the Afro Future? It is a deceptively simple question I would hear asked by community members looking for themselves in an uncertain world. Certainly, the concepts being popularized through the works of Afrofuturist artists are not new. Somehow though, through our radical imagining they are being felt in new ways. It is my understanding that this radical imagining of Blackness in the future cannot be what it is intended to be without the full participation of everyone searching for a world outside of the one we are presented everyday. A world where Blackness can grow in creativity and peace; a world where the focus of our lives is centered in practices that encourage innovation without requiring assimilation.  Ah! but therein lies the rub! (a phrase that means: that's where the problem is). How do we imagine a world of peace when we do not exist in peaceful times? How do we utilize our culture when, through assimilation we forget what that culture looked liked? How does the African Diasporic community participate in the innovation industry when we are locked out of innovation and creative practices at every turn? So often it feels like these questions are overwhelming, especially for those who wish to use the creativity of Afrofuturism in their live, whether it be through homeschooling, organizing, community outreach, or artistic practice. If these question resonate deep within you, then I want you to breathe. Breathe deeply. Breathe again and know we got this. Now, join me, as I meditate on all the ways we can use our imagination and creativity to design the future. I look forward to what we create.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support