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   I am an educator, curator, artist, and researcher of Afrofuturism and Black Islam in the U.S. based in Baltimore, MD.

Recent: 
Read Baltimore Beat awards Teen Takeover at The Walters with “The Kids Are Alright” for Best of 2025: Arts & Culture (Dec 2025)

Read Islam & Print receives Grit Fund for $7,500 (July 2025)

Watch “Safiyah Cheatam and Dan Flounders talk about mentorship, side hustles, and archiving for artists” for Creative Mornings, Baltimore (July 2025)

  1. Assistant Manager of Teen Programs at the Walters Art Museum
  2. Co-founder of Islam & Print
  3. Trustee at the Awesome Foundation


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OCTOBER 2018

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Credit: Still from Rick and Morty episode “M. Night Shaym-Aliens!”

This essay combines the thoughts of John Berger's Ways of Seeing, Jean Baudrillard's The Precession of the Simulacra, and Rebecca Solnit's The Annihilation of Time and Space to examine how humans have evolved to perceive space-time in regard to the industrial revolution(s); semiotics and iconology; and simulation-based media.


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