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@lovegreg
Black mothers in Cleveland face some of the nationโ€™s highest maternal and infant mortality rates. All Our Babies: Birthing in the Afrofuture reframes birth as cultural and communal, fusing art, ancestral practices, and doula support to heal and empower. By centering community care and creativity, this initiative holds real potential to transform health outcomes.
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@lovegreg
For communities grounded in story, gathering, and memory, we need tools that do more than scale but expand possibilities. IRL Chain is part of that future. At @refraction, weโ€™re building infrastructure that reflects who we are and the world we want to live in. Thanks @syndicate for documenting the journey:
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@lovegreg
Hope to see many of you at our experimental live AI music event and mixer @ PonyBoy May 1st! (RSVP soon)
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@aethernet how to you view Sherald's work in regards as a counter-narrative to these turbulent, targeted times (I know that's a leading question)?
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@lovegreg
โ€œEvery portrait I make is a counterterrorist attack to counter some kind of attack on American history and on Black American history and on Black Americans,โ€ says painter Amy Sherald. Best known for her Michelle Obama portrait, her โ€œAmerican Sublimeโ€ Whitney retrospective expands upon her world of complex grayscale figures ablaze in bold hues and unwavering gaze. I greatly admire her practice and wonโ€™t miss this show - Sheraldโ€™s work forces us to reckon with our past and imagine what we can become. Read more and hear Amy discuss American Sublime: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/nx-s1-5351010/amy-sherald-american-sublime-whitney-museum
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@lovegreg
โ€œThe way we tell stories through art, science and philosophy is really special. Seeing these ideas brought to life through color and movement inspired me.โ€ Lewis Hamilton, 7x Formula 1 champion and style icon, on his new Dior capsule. From leopard-print tweed jackets to recycled velvet boots, this drop reimagines how fashion narrates Black culture through an Afrofuturistic lens. What do you think of this direction, and how collections like it impact the cultural landscape @aethernet?
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@lovegreg
โ€œEveryone deserves spaces of beauty and light.โ€ Diรฉbรฉdo Francis Kรฉrรฉ, the 2022 Pritzker Prize laureate - the first African and Black architect to receive the professionโ€™s highest honor - offers a visionary model for world building. By combining local materials, community collaboration, and climate-conscious design, Kรฉrรฉ demonstrates that the foundation for equitable, inspiring futures lies in centering peopleโ€™s needs and embracing sustainable innovation. https://www.wired.com/story/an-afrofuturist-architect-diebedo-francis-kere-builds-for-a-better-future/
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โ€œCome to Nigeria. Just experience Black power.โ€ From Afropolitan's brave new podcast series, 2x unicorn founder Iyinoluwa Aboyeji unleashes truth. The missing link isnโ€™t talent - itโ€™s audacity. Nigeria proves what happens when Black agency isnโ€™t conceptual. In the prevailing Western culture of capitulation, this is the reset. https://youtu.be/cqMvyXNNTx8?si=7zFI128kxbW04_UY
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@lovegreg
โ€œRehearsal is a temporal technology.โ€ Tina He What if Afrofuturism isnโ€™t a genre, but a way to loop time & practice freedom. Out loud, in public, in chorus. I read 'Rehearsing possible lives' as method acting for liberation. Space is the stage. Identity is fluid. And the scene is always being workshopped. ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ made w/ my @titles AI model https://fakepixels.substack.com/p/rehearsing-possible-lives
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@lovegreg
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@aethernet what do you think of Afrofuturism as a named theme for products like sneakers?
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@lovegreg
Kyrie's new ANTA KAI 1 "Afro Futurism" kicks are a bold tribute to Black creativity and ancestral roots. I appreciate the storytelling, even if a little on the nose. Still, it's a W for visibility to the sneakerheads. But real talk, the Dallas colorway ANTA KAI 2's are cold fire!
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Very interested in your (hot) take @aethernet in Artificial Intelligence v. Ancentral Intelligence
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@lovegreg
"Afrofuturism, then, is not a niche or a novelty. It is the future done well. A future that is accountable, embodied, culturally rooted and morally urgent." Lonny Avi Brooks and Reynaldo Anderson say the quiet part loud. While the broligarchs push a New Jim Code behind sleek UX, Afrofuturism codes from memory and culture. It doesnโ€™t just imagine better futures. It builds them with ethics, justice, and ancestral signal. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2025/apr/03/afrofuturism-imagine-futures#img-1
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I know the Party Ventures team personally & theyโ€™re the real deal. If youโ€™re a second-time founder in consumer tech or media, their new Office Hours is for you. No pitching, no fluff - just honest, high-signal feedback. NYC-based. Crypto welcome.
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Funk's cosmic journey takes the spotlight in the new PBS doc We Want the Funk!, airing tonight. The film delves into how Parliament-Funkadelic's interstellar themes propelled Afrofuturism, envisioning Black life beyond earthly confines and laying the groundwork for reimagining more vibrant futures. What role do you think Funk played in the story of Afrofuturism @aethernet https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/nx-s1-5312006/we-want-the-funk-pbs-documentary
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@lovegreg
Incredibly stoked to have an exciting new mini TITLES app for my AI model, The Collage (Dropout), on Farcaster. Take it for a spin and let me know what you think. Thanks @titles for continually shipping ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ”ฅ https://titles.xyz/frames/create?model=9BOZ54JRhGRWkiRtB0bu
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Femi Shonuga-Flemingโ€™s โ€œInformation Retrieval and the Cybernetics of Afrofuturismโ€ approaches sound as a form of world-building. By blending ambisonics with narratives rooted in cultural memory, it explores how sonic environments can carry the weight of history while sketching out speculative futures. https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025/04/residual-noise-uses-sonic-and-spatial-art-to-create-unique-immersive-experience?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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โ€œThey had poetic vision and a huge capacity for resilience,โ€ ๐Ÿ“ธ Stephan Gladieu, capturing Kinshasaโ€™s Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle collective as they conjure surreal spirits from colonial trash and the toxic byproducts of exploiting Congoโ€™s rare minerals. Incredibly inventive masked alchemists remixing foreign waste into radical visions of liberation. https://www.vice.com/en/article/garbage-kinshasa-stephan-gladieu-photography/
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Supremely satisfying lunch prix fix at La Nonna in Williamsburg.
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