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Seshet is a queer Black woman working for New Dawn as the titular memory librarian. She works to enforce New Dawn’s rules by deleting and manipulating the population’s memories, though she turns a blind eye to some rebel groups that she considers harmless.
May 6, 2022 · The titular story, The Memory Librarian, cowritten with Alaya Dawn Johnson, follows Seshet, a government employee whose job is to gather, catalog, inspect and, if necessary, redact memories routinely collected from the citizens of New Dawn.
Apr 17, 2022 · In a new sci-fi book, musician Janelle Monáe expands on themes from her Grammy-nominated album Dirty Computer to tell stories about a community of individuals whose identities are being...
Apr 19, 2022 · Janelle Monáe’s “The Memory Librarian” offers five windows into an authoritarian world in which social deviants — almost all of them queer, Black, poor women — are relentlessly hunted ...
- Stephen Kearse
Apr 20, 2022 · It is this world that Monáe builds on in her first book, “The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer,” a collection of short stories that explore the power of...
In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle Monáe returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer, to explore how different threads of liberation – queerness, race, gender plurality, love – become tangled in a totalitarian landscape… and to discover costs of unravelling them.
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May 18, 2022 · Four years after the release of their third studio album, Dirty Computer, artist, musician and writer Janelle Monáe returned to the world of Jane 57821 with a short story collection, The Memory Librarian.
