Moor Mother is at war with time. The Philadelphian poet and experimental rap artist has theorised through her work a means to rewrite the exclusion of women and Black voices from history itself, a practice she refers to as Black Quantum Futurism. For her, linear time is a captor that
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Last year, alt-pop songstress Lotic released what many regarded as her most accomplished work to date. Water was a beguiling and pivotal album, with Lotic assuming the role of siren as she channeled the elemental qualities of water in order to engage in discourse around gender, sexuality, and queerness. The
Image: Smalltown Supersound In his seminal work Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, the queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz examines queerness as a mode of futurity, distinguishing it from heteronormative futurity as defined by the drive to reproduce and suggesting that rather, queer futurity is concerned with
