Why is there no Tessa Thompson fanfic? All us queer girls want her to fall in love with us and top the fuck out of us. I’m taking AUs, OCs, fem!reader love interest, fluff, smut, and angst.
I was fortunate to be apart of @sammyborras’ amazing Janelle Monáe/Dirty Computer fanzine with my op-ed discussing how she has impact my life. Janelle has shaped, changed, and SAVED my life with her artistry since 2010. She makes me feel seen, loved, and valued. There is power in art. I present…
I’m a closeted bi. I wrote an op-ed for a Janelle Monáe fanzine which includes me discussing being queer. I want to tweet it to Janelle however my aunt (who follows me on twitter and thinks that I’m straight follows me) may see it. I don’t know what to do!
“I chose an android because the android to me represents ‘the other’ in our society,” she said in 2010. “I can connect to the other, because it has so many parallels to my own life – just by being a female, African-American artist in today’s music industry. … Whether you’re called weird or different, all those things we do to make people uncomfortable with themselves, I’ve always tried to break out of those boundaries.”
Dirty Computer opens with an ominous voiceover spoken by Monáe, who coldly informs us of the bleak reality we’re about to enter. “They started calling us Computers,” she intones. “People began vanishing – and the Cleaning began. You were dirty if you looked different. You were dirty if you refused to live the way they dictated. You were dirty if you showed any form of opposition at all.”
Janelle Monáe just came out publicly as nonbinary. She has now published The Memory Librarian, a collection of short stories written together with other authors, all set in the android universe presented in her EPs and albums.
Monáe presents androids as liberated beings threatening the status quo of a totalitarian society. It is not hard to see how they, their gender fluidity and their power of imagination helps us understand the liberating role of LGBTQA culture today.
They also help us understand why both right wing extremists and left wing transphobes do their best to stop them from freeing the world from the tyranny of sexism, racism and conformity.
Many of the characters are queer or nonbinary, including Seshet, who comes to love a trans woman named Alethia.
Janelle Monáe recruited stars from the worlds of indie (Grimes) and hip-hop (Pharrell) to contribute to her new album Dirty Computer. But the very first collaborator that appears on the LP is none other than Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.
“Do you know how much of an honor it is to have him on [the title track]?” she tells Rolling Stone. “I am such a Beach Boys fan.”
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