Janelle Monáe’s Queer, Afrofuturist Literary Debut

MEMORY LIBRARY And Other Stories of the Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe Janelle Monáe’s love of science fiction is like blood through her music. Promotional sketches and music videos for their debut album and EP have shaped Monáe as a robot and android in various ways, predominantly from canonical sci-fi movies like “Metropolis,” “Blade Runner,” …