Janelle Monae, Yohanca Delgado, and George M. Johnson
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Musician, actor, and fashion icon Janelle Mon\\xe1e has long been creating sci-fi worlds through her albums and performances. With her new short story collection The Memory Librarian, Mon\\xe1e, along with a team of collaborators, expands on the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, Dirty Computer.\\xa0 Dirty Computer introduced us to a world where people\\u2019s memories\\u2014a key to self-expression and self-understanding\\u2014could be controlled or erased by an increasingly powerful few. And whether human, A.I., or something in-between, citizen\\u2019s lives and sentience were dictated by those of the New Dawn, who\\u2019d convinced themselves they had the right to decide fate\\u2014that was, until Jane 57821 remembered and broke free. On April 24, 2022, Mon\\xe1e came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to appear in conversation with one of the Memory Librarian collaborators, short story writer Yohanca Delgado, and George M. Johnson, whose memoir All Boys Aren\\u2019t Blue, has been banned in a recent wave of censorship of books dealing with themes like race and gender identity.
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