Janelle Monáe’s "Dirty Computer"

Dan Hassler-Forest works as Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University. He has published books and articles on superhero movies, comics, transmedia storytelling, critical theory, and Star Wars. His recent work has been focused on race and global media, with a special focus in his last two books on the creative work of performing artist Janelle Monáe.

• 1. “Young, Black, Wild and Free”: Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturist Project.- 2. “Black Girl Magic, Y’All Can’t Stand It”: Black Feminism.- 3. “Everything is Sex, Except Sex, Which is Power”: Queerness and Sexual Identity.- 4. “This is Not My America”: The Dialectics of Racial Capitalism.- 5. “Sign Your Name on the Dotted Line”: SF Activism.