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andré carrington
@andrecarrington.bsky.social
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Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic

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Put the cute in charcuterie
Charcuterie board on a table Long table with charcuterie and hors d'oeuvres
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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This looks like an incredible opportunity! Black Spatial Relics 2025 Culture Council Funds - funding for Black gathering spaces that center cultural organizing - www.blackspatialrelics.org/conjurecounc... #BlackSky #SFF #QueerCommons
A flyer for a grant opportunity. It reads: Black Spatial Relics 2025 Culture Council Funds Black Spatial Relics is a convening space for and supporter of Black radical performance, community care, collective research and transformative gathering. Founded in 2016, Black Spatial Relics has championed new performance work about slavery, justice and freedom through its residency, microgrant and convening programs. As a continuation of that work, Black Spatial Relics team is excited to launch its new flagship program - Conjure Council Funds. Now more than ever we need spaces to learn and grow together in practices that root us in the work of sustaining our spiritual, emotional and physical wellbeing even as we continue to build and dream a world worthy of our light and futures. In this intention we launch a new program - Conjure Council Funds. This is an invitation for artists, cultural workers who are descendants of the African Diaspora to apply for resources to support periodic facilitated spaces that support Black inquiry, multi-valent learning and expansion. In line with the work of Black Spatial Relics over time, we see the facilitation of these spaces as a Black radical performance praxis in service of community. Flyer for grant opportunity reads: We especially encourage nominations from artist/collective facilitators that exist at the varied intersections of art-making, collective care, embodied practice, land-based work, youth-based work and spiritual practice. This may look like a community of practice coming together for a co-facilitated study space. This may look like a cultural organizing space working to assemble community members around creative approaches to local empowerment. We invite you and/or the collective to which you belong to submit your work to this simple nomination form. This fund is for individuals and small collective grassroot efforts that are based outside of the programming of formal non-profit organizations. Four councils will be awarded funds this round. Awarded projects will receive $4,000 to support their efforts. Timeline Nominations Open: Nov 10, 2025 Nominations Deadline: December 5, 2025 Round 1 Notifications: December 22, 2025 Round 2 Materials Due: January 15, 2026 Award Announcement: March 10, 2026 Funds Dispersed in Early Spring 2026 Supplemental Programming We know that these discursive and exchange based-spaces have much to learn from each other. Consequently, there will be one virtual gathering space for facilitators to come together and share about their work. Finally, we will invite participating facilitators and collectives to submit a concluding info-graphic/one page zine or otherwise learning material to share with the larger publics of Black Spatial Relics. Cultural workers based in the United States and in the Caribbean are welcome to apply. Black women, queer folks, trans* and gender non-conforming people, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Flyer announcing nomination process open for the Black Spatial Relics 2025 Culture Council Funds. Text in a circular pattern, human figures in center
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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This is fascinating, though: examination of what the author, Enzo Vazquez Toral, calls "trans-indigenous crossings" in a Zapotec artist's performance, including the figure called "lemniscate" (the infinity symbol)
A brown skinned man stands at a lectern, beside him five people sit at a long table, and a projection screen far to the right shows an infinity symbol
November 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Saturday is plenary day at ASTR
Brown skinned man in a cardigan slacks and sneakers
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Presenting on #Audiofuturism at a plenary for the American Society for Theatre Research today. It's kind of the reveal! Meanwhile, I am reviewing the page proofs and getting the index done by a pro... April 2026 y'all.
Title page of the book Audiofuturism Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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This is a valuable conversation to have right now
Mentorship Scholarship and Practice in the Age of ICE: In an era defined by heightened immigration enforcement, surveillance, and geopolitical precarity, the stakes of mentorship, scholarship, and practices in academia, particularly for emerging scholars from immigrant, undocumented, or precariously documented backgrounds, have changed dramatically. For scholars and students who research, publish, and/or teach pro-immigrant and critical race studies, the stakes have shifted; academic freedom and the risk of retrenchment in immigration scholarship are perceptible concerns. This field conversation explores how scholars in higher education, the humanities, performance and theatre studies can ethically and effectivelv mentor...
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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My first American Society for Theatre Research conference ⛰️ sup Denver
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Sage Ni'Ja Whitson's Transtrarrestrial is a trip! The book is arranged such that you have to reorient it, and/or your body, to read what's on a given page. A movement scholar practitioner, for real! Your fave could always

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White text on a black background reads: I spent the morning with manatees. This 1,200 pound magical being has no enemics in nature. They are not aggressive, do not attack, do not defend They do not need to. Nature has developed a knowing of them to let them be- Gentle. A swimming relative of elcphants. Whiskers instead of trunks. All size and wrinkles They play. They follow the water for heat. They remember. Nature lets them be to remember. Humans do not. I want them to make it to a distance we can't recall. After human flashbacks or social media captures. I want them to be free from the concerns of our mechanized interferences or snorkling crews who just have to pet and ridc To continue to manifest an unbothered beingness And I dream that for my Black Trans sel. Manatee medicine offers that it is possible to be that big, that noticcable, that distinct, to take up that much space and to be inderstood by one's context as safe, kind. For an ecosystem of care to be cultivated around you that holds your way of tenderness. It is a longing
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Time for tableaux! In my inbox, today: The Edge of Space-Time, by MY FRIEND @chanda.blacksky.app!
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A stack of books on a bench in the sunshine
November 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Time for tableaux! In my inbox, today: Mavericks of Style, by MY FRIEND Uri McMillan.

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A stack of books on a bench in the sunshine
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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No kings* 🪶

*Yes kingbirds
Kingbird, a medium-sized flycatcher, perched on a shepherd's hook used to hang bird feeders
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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No kings, only kingbirds 🪶

(Cassin's Kingbird)
Cassin's Kingbird, a bird with a gray head and back + yellow underside
November 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Pretty happy I got out to the desert today. Not a crazy long drive there & back, some birds, some mountain breezes, some gay comics!
Two books
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Nice day for it
Landscape view of a meadow with yellow flowers, bright sun, and trees in background
November 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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It's lit! 🪶
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Feeding America Riverside | San Bernardino let me know they could use my help, so I am sure they could use yours. If you're in the area and need their help, they're here.

www.feedingamericaie.org?give=M8E62ZER
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I love getting physical copies of my colleagues' books! At local bookstores! Check this out:
Transtrarrestrial, by Sage Ni'Ja Whitson, on @bookshop.org

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October 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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To clarify, these aren't studies in race science.
Look here. The subject was likely an enslaved person. In part because of slavery, and so because we are human beings, we have been everywhere, doing everything, all the time. Anybody who says otherwise is a lie.

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Painting of a young looking brown skinned boy in fine clothes holding a flower up to his nose in front of a vase full of the same flowers
October 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I thought the party was over but everybody was dressed to the nines back at my hotel. Come to find out, I missed the function!
LCD screen with an announcement for an event titled The Open Bible Academy 10th Anniversary Gala
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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It really is! Smart stuff.
ASAP: Beast Time Double Session Agenda Session 1: 2:00-3:30pm Ali Sperling+Ben Schultz Figueroa: brief welcome and opening remarks Opening discussion questions (30 minutes, open to audience) First set of provocations (8-10 minutes each) 1 Erny ros V. Manlangit (Amos) 2 Michaela Corning-Myers 3 Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (Co-Chair) 4 Selmin Kara BREAK 3:30-3:45 Session 2: 3:45-5:00pm Second set of provocations (8-10 minutes each) 5 L. Lamar Wilson 6 Stacy Alaimo 7 Simon/e van Saarloos 8 Derek Woods Open discussion on provocations (45 minutes open to audience)
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Archives!
October 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Ready for @asapartsnow.bsky.social conference Day 1! See you at Mediamaking/Mediabreaking with @lkonstan.bsky.social & Ben Mangrum!

(The t-shirt was a kickstarter backer gift for this btw stackeddeckpress.com/product/ooop...)
Brown-skinned man with glasses and a beard holds up a smartphone. His t-shirt says Outrage Fatigue
October 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Fall backyard besties 🪶
List of birds detected by sound on the app Merlin, including Black Phoebe, White-crowned sparrow, Yellow-rumped Warbler, House finch
October 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Quick shoutout to Julie Phillips's bio James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, which I refer to whenever I teach Tiptree's fiction. It's really useful work that happens to come from outside of SF studies.
(I may or may not have told my class that Alice B. Sheldon had that shit on)
Photos reprinted in a book
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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My friend @cweekly.bsky.social saw The Black Fantastic in the wild. What a beautiful display! The quote from OEB really says it all: "How dull it is to have people defining you."
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Paperback books on a display table in a bookstore with a sign above them that reads Black Voices and shows a quotation, "How dull it is to have people defining you," from author Octavia E. Butler
October 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM