Christmas is at our door and all the rational, responsible folk have finished their shopping. But, those who enjoy utter chaos on an inwardly sadistic level have decided to wait until the last minute to find gifts that'll appease the discerning blerds in their lives. Luckily, similar to how sentient robots will eliminate half our chores in the future (until the uprising), our staff has...
M'Shai Dash
M'Shai Dash
M’Shai S Dash is a freelance writer and blogger from Washington D.C. She’s a pop-culture connoisseur and Legend of Zelda fanatic who writes about blerd culture, social justice issues, and Afrofuturism. Dash is currently a staff writer for Blacksci-Fi.com.
Rep. Cummings, HBO’s ‘Watchmen’, and How Black Creatives Can Battle Erasure
HBO's Watchmen ignited its season with three things that most blerds love: masked heroes, alternate timelines...and Regina King. King's character, Angela Abar (dubbed 'Sister Night' in the series) isn't in the original comics, but proves her mettle as a healthy...
Body-Positive, Inclusive Cosplay Helps BlerdCon Thrive
A black, femme Inuyasha stood near the revolving glass doors of the entrance to the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City, and a group of curvy girls dressed as the cheerleading squad from the teen hit Bring it On (2000) were congregating near the escalators for a picture....
‘See You Yesterday’ Had Precisely the Ending it Needed
Possible Spoilers 'See You Yesterday' When See You Yesterday popped up in my Netflix suggestions I had two thoughts. My first was that Netflix is pouncing on the afrofuturist aesthetic that's catching ears, eyes, and box office dollars at the moment, and the second...
Black Nerds Expo at MiraCosta College
Photo credits M'Shai Dash. In an area that's only a stone's throw away from where California hosts its biggest and oldest comic con, the San Diego Comic-Con, MiraCosta College decided that this year they would follow suit with an event of their own. So last Thursday,...
2018 Was The Biggest, Blackest Year in BlackSci-Fi
Let's Recap. As part of a team that took a collective oath to keep our fingers on the pulse of this type of progress, we were pretty blown away by the work of black creators, writers, and actors this year. Here are a just few highlights. After spending the beginning...
Three Takeaways from 2018’s Afropunk Fest Brooklyn
They trickled into the park in droves. Brown, beige, yellow (and yes...white), with glitter-streaked faces and decolletages, intricately piled and adorned updos, and outfits that ranged from mildly colorful to full-on, avante garde cosplay. This was the scene at last...
DC’s Black Panther Pop-up Bar Was Truly Lit
Patrons who climbed the stairs to Red Lounge in uptown Washington, D.C. this past weekend were met with flickering lilac colored lights, walls plastered in comic book pages, and locally sourced art featuring heroes and heroines from real life and the blockbuster...
An Interview with Brobot Johnson creator Darian Dauchan
Darian Dauchan’s Brobot Johnson series is a one-man web series that’s half hip-hop musical, half modern silent film, and 100% afrofuturistic. The series features a white-coiffed, facially expressive Dauchan as Brobot Johnson, a black android reanimated and kept under...
Why Black Superheroes Matter
Growing up with few heroes of color for me to celebrate made me feel that a hierarchy had already been firmly established in my world. But those feelings--as founded as they were--felt like paranoia to me at first and mostly went unchecked until I took a British...
Heroin: The Movie. Sellers and Salam talk filmmaking, drugs & sci-fi with BSF
A little over two years ago, Ryan Sellers and Rico Salam decided to adapt Get Mine or Get Naked, one of Salam's urban novels, into a movie. A little over two weeks ago, BlackSci-Fi.com decided to cover the red carpet for its release. I packed up and headed for...
Five Places to Blerd Out Before Summer Ends
It’s easy to find your tribe online. Whether you’re into FPS's or Pokeman Go, a group of people who’re just as enthusiastic about what you love are usually just a short series of clicks away on the internet. So blerding out in the virtual world has always been rather...
Stull Got It: Rob Stull Speaks On Black Comics, Afrofuturism & Artists Dating Artists
Rob Stull is a big deal in the black comic book circuit, but he should be an even bigger deal. He's worked for Marvel and DC--brands he refers to as the “The Big Two”—and he’s worked for a handful of smaller, arguably more authentic publishers like Dark Horse,...
ICYMI: State of Black Science Fiction Convention 2016
Milton Davis and Balogun Ojetade founded the State of Black Science Fiction (SOBSF) Facebook group in 2012 as a space for black authors, illustrators, filmmakers, animators, and other purveyors or enthusiasts of speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy and horror...
EdAnime Productions is Animating African History & Culture with Meltrek
Dr. Deanna Bailey, her cousin Luther Elliot IV, and longtime educator Charnee Bowens came together a little over three years ago to fill a gap in the children’s media market with EdAnime Productions. When Dr. Bailey, a researcher, lecturer, and mother of four went...
Interview With Roboticist Dr. Ayanna Howard
When I sat down to interview award winning roboticist Dr. Ayanna Howard by phone, I felt confident that I’d researched her thoroughly and formulated my questions carefully, but I was still thrown off by one thing. She didn’t look like a roboticist in any of the...