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 did a presentation at UMass Amherst Nov. 13, 2018 entitled “All Organizing is Science Fiction,” focused on sci fi and social change. The event was part of the Another World is Possible Feinberg Series. You can listen to it on Soundcloud here:
The Portland State University Vanguard ran a story about Walidah's Jan. 22, 2018 PSU MLK Tribute keynote - Afrofuturism and the Legacy of Race in Oregon:
https://psuvanguard.com/walidah-imarisha-returns-home-to-psu/
Walidah will be the 2018 MLK Tribute speaker at Portland State University. The last three were Janet Mock, the founders of Black Lives Matter, and Angela Davis.
The tribute will be Jan. 22nd at 7 pm, and is titled "Afrofuturism and the Possibilities for Oregon."
It is free and open to the public but tickets are required.
Walidah Imarisha was interviewed for the CBS News documentary on race and Portland "Portland | Race Against the Past," which aired nationally Oct. 30, 2017.
You can watch it here, and read the accompanying article:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portland-race-against-the-past-white-supremacy/
