Space to Breathe by Walidah Imarisha, Jordan Flaherty, and Kate Trumbull-LaValle, in collaboration with Calvin Williams of Wakanda Dream Lab, is a recipient of the 2021 Docs in Action Film Fund.
Space to Breathe is an abolitionist science fiction hybrid documentary. The film is set in a future where there are no prisons or police, looking back at how today’s movements built that future.
https://www.workingfilms.org/announcing-the-2021-docs-in-action-film-fund-recipients/
Walidah was part of a science fiction and politics panel Oct. 30, 2020, sponsored by American Middle Eastern Journalists Association, Along with:
John Spaihts, screenwriter for Dune
Daniel Nexon, Georgetown School of Foreign Service
Moderated by Nahal Toosi, Politico foreign affairs correspondent
Watch here:
https://www.facebook.com/AMEJAGlobal/videos/3442827715833020/
Walidah was interviewed for the Radical Imagination podcast hosted by Angela Glover Blackwell.
KBOO radio did a segment on May The Fourth aka Star Wars Day that includes an interview with Walidah about Octavia’s Brood, visionary fiction, and Star Wars, and features acclaimed journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal reading his contribution to Octavia’s Brood “Star Wars and the American Imagination.”
Walidah presented her Oregon Black history program in Lake Oswego July 23rd to 260 people.
Here is the Lake Oswego Review’s story about it, “There are two Oregons right next to each other.”
https://pamplinmedia.com/lor/48-news/434636-344995-there-are-two-oregons-right-by-each-other-
photo by Ava Eucker
This is the excerpt of a short story “Portrait of a Young Zombie in Crisis” by Walidah, originally published in Obsidian’s Speculating Futures: Black Imagination & The Arts Volume 42 in 2016, then reprinted in the anthology Sunspot Jungle: The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 2018.
