This study of singer, actress, activist, and queer icon Janelle Monáe considers her as an intersectional figure who is actively reshaping discourses around race, gender, sexuality, and capitalism. Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism is an exciting introduction to an audacious innovator whose work offers us fresh ways to talk about identity, desire, and power.

DAN HASSLER-FOREST is an assistant professor of media studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is the author of Capitalist Superheroes and Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia Storytelling Beyond Capitalism.

Introduction
Vector 1: AFROFUTURISM
Vector 2: BLACK FEMINISM
Vector 3: : INTERSECTIONALITY
Vector 4: : POSTHUMANISM
Vector 5: POSTCAPITALISM
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index