This year, I have fiction and academic scholarship for your nominating pleasure.
Enjoy!
“The Probability of One” (flash)
September 2022. Fantasy Magazine. 1400 words.
An ode to quantum possibility & Black vernacular tongues weaving the very fabric of spacetime. With a word, one might hold–or destroy it.
The choice is Darius’s.
fanfic-esque tags:
🌌 quantum fields as ancestral language
✊🏾 thwarting colonizers
🥘 food kinship (very much in the vein of "i got beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, chicken, turkey, chicken, YOU NAAAAME IT")
🧑🏾🍼 queer Black fathers
Image from the Smithsonian Institute.
“Speculative Pedagogies for Liberation” (Keynote).
May 2022. For the California Conference on Library Instruction.
This talk bridges Black speculative thought & critical teaching frameworks to ask how academic libraries–and library instruction–might better engage with the ongoing work of dismantling supremacy.
I also rounded up my favorite SFF reads from 2022:
As part of We Reads, I collected SFF shorts, novelettes, novellas, and novels that moved me–all written by authors of color. Visit our seasonal collections page to see the most recent books, or search our full archive for extra genre, character, & thematic tags.
Jen Brown 
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