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Welcome to the U.S. Student Association National Student Power Summit! This is the first gathering of its kind for the Education Justice movement in the United States. During this weekend, we will have the opportunity to share skills with students who have won concrete victories, build power with students running similar campaigns, and take bold action together. We ready, we coming! Are you?

The United States Student Association would like to thank the generosity of our sponsors; Communication Workers of America, National Nurses United, Apple, and CCC 
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Sunday, March 20 • 9:00am - 10:15am
Fear of a Black Universe: Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, and the Black Liberatory Imagination

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Afrofuturism is a movement that not only addresses the lack of color in stories of the future, but also does so much more. Afrofuturist writers discuss themes which most science fiction authors avoid such as trauma, the masculinization of Black women, whitewashing of American history, compounding oppression, and the adulation of the survivor. In science fiction, we do not have to stay contained within what is possible. We can start with the question “What do we want?” rather than the question “What is realistic?” Fear of a Black Universe seeks to use lenses such as Octavia’s Brood, X-Men, and The Matrix to reconceptualize Blackness, grassroots community organizing, and the politics of liberation.
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Josh Odam

People of African Descent Caucus Co-Representative, United States Student Association
Josh Odam is Western Massachusetts’ resident spaceboy. He is a dual-degree candidate in Political Science and Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is fluent in English, Vulcan, Klingon, Sarcasm, and Trash-Talking and divides his times between UMass and residency... Read More →

Sunday March 20, 2016 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Ballroom C
  Innovative Thinking

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