The term “Indigenous Futurism” was created in 2003 by Anishinaabe science fiction critic, editor, and academic Grace Dillon using this framework to analyse the works of Native authors in the US. Similar to Afrofuturism, it rejects assimilation and reconciliation myths and opts to forecast Indigenous peoples’ survival and resistance to genocidal oppression instead. Creators like Rebecca Roanhorse, Stephen Graham Jones, and Darcie Little Badger put Native lives, concerns, and culture at the centre of the present and the imagined future, pushing back against both ignorant and non-Native scholarly views that confine Indigenous culture to the distant past and non-urban geography.

Mexico City Futurism

Mexican author Alberto Chimal argues for the continuing development of Afrofuturism in his article “Mexafuturismo,” utilising its principles “to consider the reality of other groups who have been exploited and persecuted for ages.” He suggests a “Mexafuturism” in which authors could combine pieces that already critique Mexican racism to create works that debunk the “myth of Indigenous inferiority and submission, proposing different routes of transformation and development than traditional racist discourses, the veiled deferment proposed by neoliberalism and new contemporary fascisms.”

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Aboriginal Futurism

The term “Indigenous Futurism” was created in 2003 by Anishinaabe science fiction critic, editor, and academic Grace Dillon using this framework to analyse the works of Native authors in the US. Similar to Afrofuturism, it rejects assimilation and reconciliation myths and opts to forecast Indigenous peoples’ survival and resistance to genocidal oppression instead. Creators like Rebecca Roanhorse, Stephen Graham Jones, and Darcie Little Badger put Native lives, concerns, and culture at the centre of the present and the imagined future, pushing back against both ignorant and non-Native scholarly views that confine Indigenous culture to the distant past and non-urban geography.

Mexico City Futurism

Mexican author Alberto Chimal argues for the continuing development of Afrofuturism in his article “Mexafuturismo,” utilising its principles “to consider the reality of other groups who have been exploited and persecuted for ages.” He suggests a “Mexafuturism” in which authors could combine pieces that already critique Mexican racism to create works that debunk the “myth of Indigenous inferiority and submission, proposing different routes of transformation and development than traditional racist discourses, the veiled deferment proposed by neoliberalism and new contemporary fascisms.”

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