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Fantastic Blackness
by Fantastic Blackness with Shanté Paradigm Smalls
Fantastic Blackness is an irregular podcast by Shanté Paradigm Smalls focused on Black Queer Trans art, politics, aesthetics, and news. Features interviews with artmakers, reviews of art shows, stage plays, books, film and television, and topical discussion.
Episodes
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Season 4, episode 1: andré m carrington, PhD: sci fi, race, gender, and genre
Fantastic Blackness is an irregular podcast by Shanté Paradigm Smalls focused on Black Queer Trans art, politics, aesthetics, and news. Features interviews with artmakers, reviews of art shows, stage plays, books, film and television, and topical discussion. Guest: andré m carrington is a scholar...
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The Dystopian Present
A special solo episode from Shanté Paradigm Smalls, The Dystopian Present, explores a new magazine-style format where the podcast covers several different topics.
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In The Bleak Midwinter
Hosts Shanté Paradigm Smalls and Tavia Nyong'o dig into why horror is trending in Black entertainment today. They discuss how horror, like comedy, allows space for the unsayable or the indelicate, and how Black horror can directly address the everyday horrors of racism and gender terrorism,...
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Hip Hop Heresies
Hosts Shanté Paradigm Smalls and Tavia Nyong'o discuss Shanté's new book, Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City Thanks to our ace producer Alex van Gils and to NYU Press for the cover image of Hip Hop Heresies. Artwork by Qrky. Music in this episode by B.Q.E. “Understand/Overstand”...
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins pt. 2
In this two part conversation with MacArthur Genius Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Shanté and Tav discuss making black theater and television now. In addition to Branden’s work on adapting Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred (1979) and Alan Moore’s Watchmen (1986) to the screen, topics discussed include...
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins pt. 1
In this two part conversation with MacArthur Genius Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Shanté and Tav discuss making black theater and television now. In addition to Branden’s work on adapting Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred (1979) and Alan Moore’s Watchmen (1986) to the screen, topics discussed include...
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Spooky Pride
For the first episode of season two of Fantastic Blackness, hosts Tav and Shanté discuss Lovecraft Country, and what could have been (and may still be if picked up by another streaming service or network) on Season 2. For show notes, check out the substack:...
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Becoming Human
Hosts Shanté and Tav sit down with author Zakiyyah Iman Jackson to break down her new book: Becoming Black: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. You can find Professor Jackson's book on her website: https://www.zakiyyahimanjackson.com. Cover art contains artwork from the book's original…
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The Fire This Time
Hosts Shanté and Tav discuss things Black and Fantastic from within the COVID-19 pandemic and a heightened anti-Black racial pandemic. Our hosts reflect on academia, performative allyship, and share their pandemic playlists and reading lists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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Butler's Parable Series
Hosts Shanté and Tav welcome guest Jayna Brown (Media Studies, Pratt Institute) to discuss Octavia Butler’s Parable series and her forthcoming book, Black Utopias. Recorded via videoconferencing during COVID-19 quarantine. This episode's image contains original book cover artwork by John Jude...
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Watching Watchmen
Hosts Shanté and Tav discuss HBO’s recently completed Watchmen series and how it broke boundaries in its reckoning with legacies of racism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Black Fantasy
Hosts Shanté and Tavia discuss fantasy as genre being particularly relevant to Black folks—it includes and venerates oral traditions, myth, and folklore over or included alongside technology and hard science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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All About Janelle
In this debut episode, co-hosts Shanté and Tav introduce the themes of the podcast — which will consider race and speculation in all their manifestations — and breakdown the career to date of Janelle Monáe, a music icon of afrofuturism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Fantastic Blackness is an irregular podcast by Shanté Paradigm Smalls focused on Black Queer Trans art, politics, aesthetics, and news. Features interviews with artmakers, reviews of art shows, stage plays, books, film and television, and topical discussion.
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How many episodes does Fantastic Blackness have?
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What is Fantastic Blackness about?
Fantastic Blackness is an irregular podcast by Shanté Paradigm Smalls focused on Black Queer Trans art, politics, aesthetics, and news. Features interviews with artmakers, reviews of art shows, stage plays, books, film and television, and topical discussion.
How often does Fantastic Blackness release new episodes?
Fantastic Blackness has 13 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Fantastic Blackness is created and hosted by Fantastic Blackness with Shanté Paradigm Smalls.
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