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Walidah Imarisha is an educator, writer, public scholar and poet. She is the editor of two anthologies including Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements. Imarisha is also the author of the nonfiction book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison and Redemption and the poetry collection Scars/Stars. Imarisha is currently a Lecturer in Stanford University’s Program of Writing and Rhetoric.
Public Presentation Dreaming New Futures: Science Fiction and Social Change with Walidah Imarisha.
As the co-editor of the anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements, Walidah Imarisha has connected imagination and social change. The basic premise of Octavia's Brood is all organizing is science fiction. To build new just futures, we must first be able to imagine them collectively. We also have to be able to imagine different ways of engaging with one another, of sharing power, of building institutions, of being in community, which can be as alien to us as living on Mars. To build, as Black Lives Matter says, leader-full movements that are visionary, we must create spaces where all of us collectively share ideas, leadership, and work to pull our liberation dreams out of the ether and into reality.
Workshop Dreaming New Futures: Science Fiction and Social Change, with Walidah Imarisha