RPH vs. Indigenous Futurism
RPH is back! Red Power Hour co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz tackle a collection of stories, Love after the End An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
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@jacquelinevandervenne
May 12, 2026 at 9:52 pm
I never liked science fiction but when I hear you both talking about it I want to get into sci-fi. Nice scarfs. Love the artwork in the background Melanie.
@larmih
May 12, 2026 at 9:52 pm
Science fiction, unlike star wars, is about breaking the cursed circle where all the elements sequel the previous and known ones. The universe is endless and the most interesting thing is to get to know about it infinite diversity. Star wars in this aspect is a very limited fantasy.
@ArK047
May 12, 2026 at 9:52 pm
11:36 Off the top of my head, space fiction was an extension of the exploration/colonization era adventure fantasy literature that came before it, Jules Verne et al, just applied beyond the reaches of our planet. As I got older I couldn't unsee how so many works in this genre presuppose an anthropocentric, even Anglocentric, point of view on the universe when there's nearly an infinity of possibilities out there.
@timmoore3188
May 12, 2026 at 9:52 pm
Nature will survive and her people will thrive because colonialism is unsustainable in the long run.
@AMortifyingOrdeal
May 12, 2026 at 9:52 pm
OOOH! Can you cover Hill Agency: PURITYdecay? It's a cybernoir detective game set in a Landback future. I'd be so interested to hear both of your takes on it.
@Mhm5213
May 12, 2026 at 9:52 pm
The futures of the worlds peoples like trees and the up most growth like reeds in wind. Sky-walking like a wraith between two worlds, the center relationship with “the space” of the cosmos.
To lose home parcel as the reach expands. How to keep rooted between the stones of orbit.
Moon is an organ that is mass transit for water.
@alexanderleuchte5132
May 12, 2026 at 9:52 pm
"Futurism in 9 Minutes: How to Rewrite Culture" by 'Curious Muse' is a concise overview of the artists movement "Futurism", the official art of Italian Fascism. It's interesting how the rustik and Classicist preferences of the 3. Reich somehow overshadowed the modernist, techno-progressive ideology of the Italian version in the publics conception of what its essence is
@AJfromHTX
May 12, 2026 at 9:52 pm
Thank you all
@PanchoMcFarland
May 12, 2026 at 9:52 pm
Oh, I wanna take that course on feminist and queer ecologies.
@TWOFS_1
May 12, 2026 at 9:52 pm
Only 11:11 mins in, and already I’m getting that buzzy revolutionary feeling. Great stickers! Elena’s calendar is still on April, but I love that too. lol
@grrrund
May 12, 2026 at 9:52 pm
TNG was basically Sesame Street for adults. It may have been unsuccessful. Myself, growing up disconnected, I loved sci-fi because cocky weirdo explorers often ran into stuff like the xenomorphs. Lots of human exceptionalism feels like American exceptionalism, and so watching aliens that don’t look “smart” and aren’t “even capable of using tools” or whatever absolutely smoke cocky explorer weirdos. I can’t unsee the Force as the Mysterious Presence of Life in Everything, ya know? A Jedi’s strength flowwwws from the force. The rock, the tree, the ship, and all that. Wars not make one great, ya know? Y’all totally know. Like, I dunno how many of our languages treat time as spacial. My language teacher was telling us though, that’s how. 28:39 HEY LOOKS LIKE HOME TO ME, YO!