Cindi Mayweather

Crushing Disappointment

"I imagined Many Moons in the sky lighting the way to freedom"

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Welcome to Episode #30 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to himself about his crush on Cindi Mayweather.

Disappointments: Was this too ambitious? Should you have used more sources than just those you found by searching "Cindi Mayweather" on Google Scholar? Should you have just left this to people who are better equipped to discuss race, class, and gender?

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Black Girls Code

Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

Cassandra L. Jones: “Tryna Free Kansas City” The Revolutions of Janelle Monáe as Digital Griot

Daylanne K. English and Alvin Kim: Now We Want Our Funk Cut Janelle Monáe’s Neo-Afrofuturism

D.A. Hassler-Forest: The Politics of World-Building: Heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe's Afrofuturist WondaLand

Nathalie Aghoro : Agency in the Afrofuturist Ontologies of Erykah Badu and Janelle Monáe

Grace D. Gipson: Afrofuturism's Musical Princess Janelle Monáe: Psychedelic Soul Message Music Infused with a Sci-Fi Twist

Anders Liljedahl: Recalling the (Afro)future: Collective Memory and the Construction of Subversive Meanings in Janelle Monáe's Metropolis-Suites

Aleksandra Szaniawska: Gestural Refusals, Embodied Flights Janelle Monáe’s Vision of Black Queer Futurity

Jana Baró González: The ArchAndroid: Cyborg Consciousness in Janelle Monáe’s Cindi Mayweather Saga

E. van Soldt: “Black Girl Magic, Y‟all Can‟t Stand It”: On Afrofuturism and intersectionality in Janelle Monáe‟s Dirty Computer

Darieus Antonino Za Gara II: Finding Moments of Rupture in Monáe's Metropolis: A Hybrid Tradition

Brianne A. Painia: “My Crown Too Heavy Like the Queen Nefertiti”: A Black Feminist Analysis of Erykah Badu, Beyoncé Knowles, Nicki Minaj, and Janelle Monáe

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Afrofuturists, Sci-Fi authors and other interesting people to follow on twitter: Ytasha Womack, Ingrid LaFleur, Cassandra L. Jones, Nnedi Okorafor, Tananarive Due, N. K. Jemisin

Nnedi Okorafor's tweet - "I DO NOT WRITE AFROFUTURISM." and her definitions of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism here.

Ytasha Womack - Afrofuturism Imagination and Humanity

TEDxFortGreeneSalon - Ingrid LaFleur - Visual Aesthetics of Afrofuturism

Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa | Nnedi Okorafor

Ytasha Womack L. Womack: Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

What does the Afrofuture say?

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Articles about Janelle Monáe

Elizabeth Sandifer: A Short Guide to Janelle Monáe and the Metropolis Saga

Aja Romano (Vox): Janelle Monáe’s body of work is a masterpiece of modern science fiction

Geoffrey Himes (Paste Magazine): Janelle Monáe: Imagining Her Own Future

Charles Pulliam-Moore (Gizmodo): From Metropolis to Dirty Computer: A Guide to Janelle Monáe's Time-Traveling Musical Odyssey

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YouTube Videos about Haraway

I took the idea of "A Cyborg Manifesto" arguing for a 'posthumanism that is culturally and socially specific' from Rosanna McNamara, '15 Minutes of Utopia - A Cyborg Manifesto'

& I took the comparison between the Cyborg and Marx's conception of capitalism producing the tools to destroy itself from "Theory and Philosophy"'s Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto"

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Janelle Monáe Emotion Pictures mentioned

Many Moons

Tightrope

Q.U.E.E.N.

Primetime

Dirty Computer