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A scene of an in-process play about black women, elicits an audience response concerned with female whiteness. A play to be written, foreshadowing a dark future for Black and Muslim women, is anticipated by the present. Another in progress about Black women modifying their clothes and bodies to meet an aesthetic. Drawing on some of my experiences utilizing playwriting to grapple with the historical legacies entangling Blackness and the development of the sciences, medicine, and health that emerged through ethnographic fieldwork, I think about how anthropology and theater can be put together in the service of predicting what is to come and making space for that exploration and galvanization for change and improved black lives. Can it help us make futures that invite, nurture, and sustain Blackness, Black reproduction, Black bodies, Black technologies, Black life? Can it help us create or use technological advancements towards the promotion, celebration, and sustenance of black life?
