About the eventStarted in 2014 by Njeri Damali Sojourner-Campbell,
SOULar Powered Reading Group (SPRG), is a community that primarily
consists of queer Black readers and readers of colour, genders, and
sexualities from around the word that celebrate Afrofuturism,
Africanfuturism, Afromystism, and science fiction featuring Black
people written by Black people.
Conversations are as casual as meeting a dear friend for coffee, as
intellectual as your PHd s thesis, and as intentional as your Buddha
instructor in deep meditation (says Isisi Asare, a non-coffee
drinking, non-PHd holding Buddhist ;-).)
Join the book club via zoom or in person ready to discuss the book,
Black diasporan culture, and the intersection of scifi and politics.
Register online via eventbrite. Fees collected help SPRG pay author
fees, admin costs (ie annual zoom subscription), and social media
promotion.
About An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in
the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to
the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were
truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down
the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for
stories told around the cookfire.
Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel
organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, the Matilda
has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its
way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep
indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they
consider to be less than human.
When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link
between his death and her mother's suicide some quarter-century
before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. Embroiled in a grudge
with a brutal overseer and sowing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns
there may be a way off the ship if she's willing to fight for it.
Meet the SOULar Powered Leadership Team
Njeri Damali Sojourner-Campbell is a Toronto-based literary reviewer
and booktuber focused on Afro-futurism who has interviewed authors
such as Nalo Hopkinson, and Nisi Shawl, and Jewelle Gomez. You can
find her youtube page here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_reNHCI5mUeKGbvkN2_bTA
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_reNHCI5mUeKGbvkN2_bTA]
Chloe Rose is based in the Philadelphia area and recently launched her
booktube channel Thistle & Verse. Her focus is on fantasy, scifi, and
folklore/ fairytales. You can see more here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJriWyYfIPnbfSz52fEhHJw
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJriWyYfIPnbfSz52fEhHJw].
Isis Asare is a cultural entrepreneur who served as the CEO fro Sistah
Sinema until she sold it in 2014. In 2019, she launched Sistah Scifi,
an online bookstore focused on literature written by Black women. You
can learn more here: www.sistahscifi.com
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