05 - Andre Zachery & Crystal Perkins

Andre M. Zachery is the Artistic Director of Renegade Performance Group https://www.renegadepg.com/ and can be found on Instagram @amzrpg

Crystal Perkins can be found @cmichelledance and has a beautiful TEDx talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q572zp9EWs

Andre mentions the choreographer Bebe Miller. You can learn more about her here: https://bebemillercompany.org/

He also talks about Kodwo Eshun, Reggie Wilson, and his work in Afrofuturism, and I mention a couple of favorite feminist Afrofuturist writers, here’s a few helpful links:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/118144.Kodwo_Eshun

https://fringearts.com/2016/09/01/citizen-reading-list-provided-reggie-wilson/

https://blacfoundation.org/deep-meaning-of-kongo-cosmogram/

https://www.renegadepg.com/the-afrofuturism-series.html

https://nkjemisin.com/

https://www.octaviabutler.com/

Crystal Perkins mentions the poetry and practices of Sunni Patterson

https://sunnipatterson.com/