I am a writer, director, performer, and artist, worldbuilding positive futures in the husk of the capitalist experiment. In my work, through the production of film scripts, play texts, films, videos, and performances, I practice worldbuilding—constructing a fictional world or universe, a key task of many science fiction and fantasy writers—as a means to convey my belief that decolonizing, queering, and regenerating are linked processes.

I want to imagine a future in which I, and my comrades, could thrive while being neurodivergent, queer, dis/abled, people of color, historically under-resourced, and so on. I also want to imagine a future in which the overculture’s relationship to our planet is no longer one of resource domination and extraction, but rather one of interconnection and ecological regeneration. To me, these two concepts—to exist in our fullness, and to approach nature and future with a giving hand—are inseparable. I am also interested in the decolonization and liberation of modern technology, which so often is created to serve the capitalist machine that will be our undoing. In my future, nature and technology fuse, and humans are able to enter into an empathetic, symbiotic relationship with the machines and AIs that we have borne.

To that end, my recent short film SUNRIDER, which premiered at Les Femmes Underground International Film Festival in Phoenix, AZ in 2018, offers a window into “Planet Femme,” my multi-modal speculative fiction world, which currently spans performance, film, video, prose, photography, cartography, and a roleplaying game in development. In Planet Femme, liberated AIs run a system of terraformed asteroid earthships (asteroids that have been transformed to support human and earth life), where humanity’s survivors live in a world of femme futurity and empathetic technology. With the earthship Aurora as its center, I imagine a world in which humans live a regenerative lifeway atop a series of asteroids in deep space, reclaiming many historical practices of food and material cultivation and distribution. It is my hope that Planet Femme can serve as a vehicle for us to reimagine our path to a life-connected future here on earth.