A past struggle for racial equity could achieve a profound future victory in this audacious short story about technology, hoodoo, and hope by a Nebula Award-winning author.
Burri is a fashion designer and icon with a biochemistry background. Her latest pieces are African-inspired and crafted to touch the heart. They enable wearers to absorb nanorobotic memories and recount the stories of Black lives and forgiveness. Wenda doesn't buy it. A protest performance artist, Wenda knows exploitation when she sees it. What she's going to do with Burri's breakthrough technology could, in the right hands, change race relations forever.
Nalo Hopkinson's Clap Back is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.
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Last week, designer Agentta Burri introduced Forgetful, her new line of knitwear for the summer season.
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(Amazon Original Stories, 31 August 2021, ebook, 21 pages, borrowed from @AmazonKindle, #PrimeReading)
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This is a new author for me. I enjoyed Clap Back a bit more than the other Black Stars stories. I loved the idea of clothes with nanobots inside them with memories and stories inside them that are absorbed and repeated by the wearer. I found this idea beautiful and unsettling as well. I thought the characters were very well-written and I engaged with the story on every level. This a great piece.
