At the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Janelle Monáe discussed her relationship with science fiction and Afrofuturism, coming out as nonbinary, and what inspired her to write a short-story collection based on her album “Dirty Computer.'
“There was so much that we wanted to say that we just couldn’t put it in the film and the album,” Monáe said. “And there was so much as a writer that we left off the table, and then the pandemic happened.”
“But how did you get into Afrofuturism and science fiction?” Smith asked Monáe later. “It’s not necessarily a genre that’s designed for Black people.”R.L. Stine’s “That was exciting to me,” she said. But it wasn’t until Monáe became an artist that she learned about musicians like Sun Ra and writers likeSmith said she was struck by the book’s queer, Black women living their best lives. “Is this something that’s possible [in the real world]?”
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