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🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week, Diosa and Mala discuss Latino/Latinx futurism and its roots in Afrofuturism and Indigenous futures. They breakdown how Octavia Butler was a major inspiration for Herederxs in Space, a joint-project with Pizza Shark, a Latina-led production company. Herederxs in Space is an audio-phonic time capsule spanning 2016–2036, combining present-day oral histories, speculative podcasts, and an immersive installation. You can join the living time capsule here.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.4	Locato Radio.
0:10.2	Hola, hello, loca mores.
0:11.9	I'm Diosa.
0:13.0	And I'm Mala.
0:14.3	You're listening to Locator Radio.
0:16.7	And today we're thinking and talking about the future.
0:20.8	We want to dive into Latino Latinx futurism today.
0:26.6	It's origins and how that applies to a brand new project that we're working on in collaboration
0:31.6	with this Latina production company called Pizza Shark.
0:35.6	So we recently went to what's basically the Coachella for
0:39.0	podcasters called On Air Fest in Brooklyn. And we put on a show, an installation, all about
0:45.5	podcasting, audio, and where the past meets the future. But before we tell you about our Honor
0:51.3	Fest experience, we want to run through some examples of futurisms
0:56.2	as they have existed throughout different cultures, racial groups, ethnic groups, starting with Afro-Futurism.
1:03.8	The concept of futurism is dedicated to imagining a better future rooted in cultural experiences
1:09.6	and influences. And I think one of the most popular
1:15.9	or influential in a pillar of Afrofutrism is Octavia Butler, the writer, the novelist,
1:23.4	the science fiction writer, actually from Pasadena, from Pasadena, California. And she had, she was
1:29.9	writing about dystopic quote futures. One of her most famous novels, Parable of the Sower,
1:36.4	was published in 1993, but is set in the year 2024. And one of the reasons her work is so influential and still continues to be so impactful,
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