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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.
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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.
Oct 6, 2022 · Seshet, the Memory Librarian and main character in this chapter, is a Black queer woman (like other characters throughout the book), and one of the few Black women in positions of authority in the city of Little Delta.
Apr 20, 2022 · In the first story, “The Memory Librarian,” which Monáe co-wrote with Johnson, we are introduced to Seshet, the director librarian of a city called Little Delta and a rare Black face in the ...
Dec 2, 2023 · As a glitch in the memory collection system threatens her precarious position as a Black lesbian Director Librarian, Seshet develops a romance with a Black trans woman and talented chemist named Alethia, who finds a home among the city’s “memory fugitives.”
Seshet is one of only a few Black women officials within New Dawn, and is distrusted because of who she is. She holds onto her position through savvy politics and internal control. She does not entirely buy the New Dawn party line, but tells herself, “whoever they put in her place will be far worse” (p. 3).
Apr 19, 2022 · Many of the book's characters are queer or nonbinary, including Seshet, who becomes romantically involved with a trans woman named Alethia in the short story “The Memory Librarian.”
Apr 14, 2022 · The Memory Librarian (2 stars)-We follow the so called memory librarian named Seshet. Seshet works for New Dawn and is in charge of deleting and replacing people's memories. Hey, you keep a population under your thumb, you can win right?
