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Primarily featured work on his blog, but not very recently. However, he has a variety of work on different subjects ranging from capitalism, racism, and sexism. He connects to Monáe since he writes about the antiblack genocide rampant in the U.S. which is featured in the work of Monáe.

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Afterlife of Slavery Theorist: Jared Sexton 

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Afterlife of Slavery Theorist: Jared Sexton 

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Specializes in the area of African American studies and film/media at UCI. Published work focuses on blackness in film and black experience in general. This relates back to Monáe's work because they delve into the black experience in both their music and film career.

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Black Feminism Theorist: Aria S. Halliday

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Black Feminism Theorist: Aria S. Halliday

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She is well versed in areas related to hip-pop feminism, black girlhood, in addition to visual mediums. Recent publications detail the black female body and black girl hood like her piece "Envisioning Black Girl Futures". Has lots of interviews done this year on these particular subjects. Morever, Halliday connects to Monáe because she writes about subjects which are incorporated into the creative projects of Monáe.

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"Take a Byte" from Monáe's emotion picture Dirty Computer exemplifies what Walker was saying about social death. They are deleting all of their memories which is an act of violence because it seeks to destroy something from the character of Jane.

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Monáe's work in the 2020 film Antebellum features many aspects which relate to antiblack genocide. Where it shows how antiblack genocide is still rampant in the U.S., which they create a nuanced character which has to deal with the afterlife of slavery and genocide.

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This is Monáe's most recent release which talks a lot about the upcoming political moment, and features a lot of imagery of violence of black bodies. Some important lyrics are "A different vision
With a new dream
We kickin out the old regime
Liberation, Elevation, Education". It calls for change and hopes with a new president there will be an improvement for the black community, trying to change systemic racism.

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Janelle Monáe - Turntables [Emotion Picture]

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Social/cultural aspects which perpetuates mental violence rather than a physical one.

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Genocide which is fueled in an antiblack society with intent to annihilate and be violent towards black individuals.

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Racism which is built into society, where it is meant to be invisible, particularly through institutions like prison and laws.

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In the emotion picture Dirty Computer when the two men are going through Jane's memories and deleting them throughout the film connects to the libidinal economy of antiblackness. Where the act of viewing these memories and getting pleasure from violence against black bodies fuels the libidinal economy of antiblackness.

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The act of the dominant institution in Dirty Computer trying to change and take away everything form the character Jane relates to abjection. Even with the costumes, they were all in white, projected the idea of being purified, and the head person Virgin Victoria was a white woman.

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"Screwed" from Monáe's album Dirty Computer carries themes of afropessimism, which is specifically shown in the music video. The video details a group of black queer individuals who are trying to escape the police robots, which represents these lasting antiblack sentiments in the U.S.

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Janelle Monáe - Screwed (feat. Zoë Kravitz) [Official Music Video]

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Aspect #3: Libidinal Economy of Antiblackness 

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Aspect #3: Libidinal Economy of Antiblackness 

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The exchange of fears and desires of black bodies which are engrained into them, acting like a new form of currency.

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In relation to being the abject is being excluded outside history where colonialism and white supremacy are quite prominent in this area.

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Is a framework used to describe the far reaching impact that a society of antiblackness has on black individuals.

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The song "Tightrope" from Monáe's album The Archandroid, has deeper things when looking into the music video. The lyrics are not necessarily trying to say something, but with the way the music video uses dance it does. For example dance in the video is supposed to take place in an asylum which dancing is forbidden, which can be an ode to how black dancers are never fully credited for their work and how black bodies are how they are a commodity. Moreover, through dance and music artists like monáe are able to try and subtly defy norms set by dominant institutions, representing the idea of disidentification.

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Janelle Monáe - Tightrope (feat. Big Boi) [Official Music Video]

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Monáe's character from the film Moonlight Teresa where they play a nurturing mother like figure to the protagonist. However more important than their actual performance is their involvement with the movie itself which is connected to quare studies in the way that it studies the black queer experience in a white supremacist society.

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The entire album Dirty computer highlights afrofurturism in addition to the majority of their work, which for this particular album details a future for black queer people which mirrors a lot of issues today. Monáe's work is also heavily influenced by the future and works like Metropolis, where most of her albums have afrofuturistic ideas.

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Coined by the theorist José Muñoz, it represents a way in which artists try to defy dominant institutions by not outwardly defying norms but by subtly hinting at it.

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Opens up the queer studies to those who identify as black and queer, analyzing a range of issues not just based off sexuality.

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Focuses on the black and future, where there is a culmination of what that looks like for black bodies specifically in regards to and antiblack society.

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Owning their sexuality and making choices about their creative process, everything they reveal has a purpose.

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Aspect #2: Empowerment of the Black Female Body

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Aspect #2: Empowerment of the Black Female Body

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Not being ashamed of their body, rather embodying the black female body which is empowering.

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The way in which the young black girl experience is connected to historical and political pasts and show the past experience of black women.

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"Q.U.E.E.N" by Janelle Monáe (Featuring Erykah Badu), from the album The Electric Lady, is an example of anaconda feminism because of its lyrical content. For instance, lyrics like "Is it peculiar that she twerk in the mirror?" and "Am I a freak because I love watching Mary?", which conveys how Monáe is owning their body and sexuality.

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Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu [Official Video]

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"Pynk" from the emotion picture, Dirty Computer, highlights what the empowerment of the black female body looks like. In this video Monáe shows women being empowered by their bodies and celebrating their femininity. They even go so far as to use lots of pink in the video (a traditionally feminine color), and featuring what looks like vagina pants.

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Janelle Monáe - PYNK [Official Music Video]

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"Django Jane" is an anthem to black girl magic and highlights the black female experience. This communicates the elements of black girlhood, where black women finally get a place to voice their experiences. For example these lyrics, "Black girl magic, y'all can't stand itY'all can't ban it, made out like a bandit They been tryin' hard just to make us all vanish" and "If she the G.O.A.T. now, would anybody doubt it?". Monáe owns their body and vision, where who they are despite living in a world where black are heavily policed and black women are silenced.

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Janelle Monáe – Django Jane [Official Music Video]

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Janelle Monáe and Prince have a lot of similarities in regards to lyrics, vision, and in some ways with the music video with Monáe's song "Make Me Feel" and Prince's "Kiss". They have the same beat, it is an uptempo kind of song which has many qualities that make you want to dance. Both songs are talking about attraction, which both communicate a sort of queerness to listeners. Monáe is a part of Prince's legacy by continuing the type of sound he had in addition to create more spaces for black cultural producers.

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"Envisioning Black Girl Futures : Nicki Minaj's Anaconda Feminism and New Understandings of Black Girl Sexuality in Popular Culture" by Aria S. Halliday

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Scientific Findings from Black Queer Studies

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Scientific Findings from Black Queer Studies

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"Why Afrofuturism Is a Black Feminist Praxis" by Aph Ko / " 'Quare' Sutdies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother" by E. Patrick Johnson

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"Introduction:

Blackness, Abjection, and Sexuality" by Darieck Scott /Afropessimism An Introduction by book editor

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"Invisible Bodies: Anti-black Genocide in the U.S." by
Darryl Walker Jr.

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The Genius of Janelle Monáe by Amanda West

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The Genius of Janelle Monáe by Amanda West

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A new wave of Afrofurturistic artistry