RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS is a public interest attorney, mother, and writer living and working in Philadelphia. She is the creator of The AfroFuturist Affair, one of the founding members of Metropolarity Spec Fic Collective, and a 2015 artist-in-residence at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange. She has independently published a collection of short, speculative stories called Recurrence Plot (and Other Time Travel Tales), and an anthology of visionary essays called Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice.