Photo of Shafiqah Hudson.

Shafiqah Hudson

Shafiqah Hudson is an East Coast-based freelance writer, perpetual student of life, and spinster cat lady, who moonlights as an Internet troll slayer.

Pieces

Actor John Boyega as Finn in The Force Awakens, sitting at the weapons station of a spacecraft.

Black In The Imaginationscape

Why is it so difficult for some readers and filmgoers to imagine that space, the dystopian or utopian future, or dragon/elf inhabited lands... might have Black people in them?