{"id":8087,"date":"2017-12-27T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T08:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/first-black-woman-in-space\/"},"modified":"2017-12-27T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T08:28:11","slug":"first-black-woman-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/first-black-woman-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"First Black Woman in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colonialism, space, post-racist future: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonededeayivi.com\/vita\/\">Simone Dede Ayivi<\/a> &#8216;s performance in Berlin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophiensaele.com\/produktionen.php?IDstueck=1526\">Sopiehens\u00e4len<\/a> tells at the same time about today, about the past and about another tomorrow, because:<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to stop rebels that time travel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She writes about her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonededeayivi.com\/first-black-woman-in-space\/\">piece:<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Black female role models have never been scarce &#8211; just underrepresented. And early on, they were drawn to space: Lieutenant Uhura on the Enterprise and, almost 30 years later, Mae C. Jemison on the space shuttle Endeavour. A fictional and a real person whose achievements are closely linked, because we will always get only the future we dare to dream.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First Black Woman in Space&#8221; is a feminist, Afrofuturist project dedicated to African and Afrodiasporic history and the contemporary situation of Black women and women of color. 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