Listen to Radical Futures on Black Earth Podcast
I joined Marion Atieno Osieyo on Black Earth Podcast to talk about futures work, climate justice, and what happens when Black women lead the work of imagining what comes next.
We covered why futures thinking matters for Black-led climate organizing, what I learned working with survivors of the 1921 Tulsa massacre, how care functions as a technology in climate movements, and why Octavia Butler remains essential for anyone trying to sense what's emerging.
Marion created space for a conversation that moved slowly enough to go deep. We talked about grief and speculation, about what it means to inherit violence, about how to build futures that don't require anyone's erasure.
We followed up with a LinkedIn Live conversation where we pushed further into why imagining the future actually matters, how Octavia Butler practiced foresight through fiction, and how a futures card game might guide you into strange, tender, post-capitalist timelines. We each pulled cards from A Thing from a Radical Future (a speculative game I adapted) and crafted our own artifacts from the future, complete with visuals and stories.
If you're doing climate work, organizing work, or futures work, this conversation might give you language for something you've been feeling but couldn't name yet.
