Future Feelings: Conversation with Asia Clarke

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“Foresight for me is so important because I feel responsible for imagining my own preferred future—my own plausible, preferred future…How much can I insert my will, my desires, my imagination into that future in my own life and then further out into the community that I'm working in? It’s done in small ways, but it can have big impacts.”

Episode 03 features multidisciplinary creative, researcher, forecaster, strategist, freelance writer, and community-builder Asia Clarke, who is also the creator of VERN—a critical futures scenario and film concept set in the Toronto suburb of Malvern in 2040. She speaks with host Radha Mistry about the legacies of Black women in speculative fiction, using hair as a material and medium for expressing futures, and the critical importance of working with and for the youth.

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Future Feelings is brought to you by Deem Audio. Production by Amy Mae Garrett. Editorial by Isabel Flower. Creative direction by Nu Goteh. Cover art by Jun Lin. Sound mixing and editing by Hasan Insane. Theme music by Nu Goteh. A special thank you to our host, Radha Mistry.