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Maya G. Vinuesa

@mayagdv.bsky.social

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Author, GENES A LA CARTA. Sci-fi, Fantastic, Black Fiction. Translator, academic.

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Maya G. Vinuesa @mayagdv.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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Maya G. Vinuesa @mayagdv.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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Maya G. Vinuesa @mayagdv.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Tomen nota y llenen nuestro buzón de textos para este monográfico... le debemos a Felwine Sarr el concepto de Afrotopía y así lo reconocemos en la convocatoria.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This was my response in The Guardian 3 years ago when I was asked if my work was a response to the prevalence of whiteness in science fiction. I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :

My worlds are African worlds. I'd love to take credit for the culture that is in my worlds' DNA, but I can't. Those cultures existed long before me;I didn't have to imagine them. And my stories certainly don't exist because white male (or female ... let's not forget that white female perspectives also dominate female perspectives in science fiction and fantasy) perspectives refused to imagine them first. My stories aren't a " to whiteness. They exist wholly outside of white-male-anything. These stories that come from my own culture, experiences, from within me, from reflections of specific African cultures. By existing, I'd hope they help bring cultural, ethnic and gender balance to science fiction and fantasy, but that is not my work's reason to exist.

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Maya G. Vinuesa @mayagdv.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

My book of short stories GENES A LA CARTA, expands the literary and film tradition of an extreme present or a near future with a fracture between super humans and normal Sapiens. How does a first generation of gene edited humans live with the other less privileged humans?

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