Join us on our Facebook Livestream with our guest, conceptual artist Natasha Marin discussing her anthology Black Imagination in conversation with Black speculative writer Christian M Ivey.

“(D)on’t think for one minute that Black Imagination is easy. As you will read here, it is hard-earned and sometimes dangerous, but it’s necessary, and radical, to claim and work towards. Listening to my people in this book gave me so much life, and I’m pretty sure, dear reader, you’re in for the same.” —from the Foreword by Steven Dunn

Natasha Marin (curator of Black Imagination, 2020 McSweeney’s) is a conceptual artist whose people-centered projects have circled the globe and have been recognized and acknowledged by Art Forum, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, and others. In 2018, Marin manifested BLACK IMAGINATION: The States of Matter, The (g)Listening, and Ritual Objects– a triptych of audio-based, conceptual art exhibitions in and around Seattle, WA. BLACK IMAGINATION is community-based, ongoing and continues to amplify, center, and hold sacred a diverse sample of Black voices including LGBTQIA+ black youth, incarcerated black women, black folks with disabilities, unsheltered black folks, and black children. Marin’s viral web-based project, Reparations, engaged a quarter of a million people worldwide in the practice of “leveraging privilege,” and earned Marin, a mother of two, death threats by the dozens.

Christian M. Ivey (he/they), is a Black speculative writer & editor from Pontiac, MI currently residing in Berkeley, Ca working as a Digital Comms Specialist for OBI. His work focuses on communication as a key tactic in the digital and print sphere, exploring the gray area between Afrofuturism and Afropessimism.

Black Imagination will be available at Lost City Books!