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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. New Dawn’s memory collection system becomes clogged up, and Seshet investigates.
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 21, 2022 · “Memory Librarian” explores a futuristic world in which an organization called the New Dawn takes a Big Brother-esque approach to wiping out human desires deemed abnormal, seeking to create...
Apr 17, 2022 · The artist builds on the Afrofuturistic world from her 2018 album in a new short story collection titled The Memory Librarian. She tells NPR about her nightmare that inspired the project.
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“Some new dawns are dark, like a silk hood slipped over a nation’s head, then choked shut. An eclipse. It started that way,” Monáe writes in The Memory Librarian’s introduction. That’s the thing about good science-fiction writing: It feels eerily real and uncanny in its precision. It gives you the framework and language to understand the only partl...
While Dirty Computer might be the most pop-adjacent of Monáe’s studio albums, it features elements from so many genres: funk, hip-hop, R&B, neo soul, electropop, space rock, trap, new wave, futurepop — the list goes on. The narrative of Dirty Computer, and its visuals, though, do share a genre connection with the artist’s earlier work. That genre, ...
In addition to uplifting authors with their platform, Monáe’s collection centers on people of color as well as queer, trans and nonbinary people. For them, the book is about — and for — all the “nerds” and “weirdos,” for everyone who has felt isolated for being unique or living in their truth. “My prayer has always been…[that this book will find] t...
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Apr 19, 2022 · Building off the tradition of speculative fiction writers such as Octavia E. Butler, Ted Chiang, Becky Chambers, and Nnedi Okorafor—and filled with powerful themes and Monáe’s emblematic artistic...
Apr 19, 2022 · Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts—as a means of self-conception—could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether you were human, AI, or other, your life and sentience were dictated by those who’d convinced themselves they had the right to decide your fate.
