The Afrofuturist Summer Book Series: M'Shai Dash and Lawrence Brown

Dr. Lawrence Brown will join us to explore independent Black speculative fiction projects in our new summer series! He will talk with three authors about their novels, screenplays, and comic books that imaginatively explore Black futures and alter destinies. Their quirky and creative visions are situated in Baltimore and the DMV. Their works leap beyond our collective calamity to forge future flourishing.

The first fun and inspiring conversation will feature author M’Shai Dash, whose short story collections Quirky Black Sci-Fi Tales, Vols. I and II, weave Black Feminist Futurism with the fantasticism of the universe. In spellbinding tales, we are introduced to Black heroines on the verge of upending the world they know, while using courage they never knew they had. As the women confront monsters of both the human and inhuman kind, each woman is catapulted into quests of self-discovery that illuminates their force within the universe.

Come on over to the Ivy patio for a summer night of whimsical visioning!