Fiction makes us human.

As a girl, I felt that God had made me the lowest form of human being, to be both Black and female. I felt this way because of the stories that I was told. Stories that demonized what is African, criminalized what is Black, and made useless and degenerative what is female.

In post-colonial literary imagination, human potential is not achieved until an author or other creative has moved a Black body through white dreams, so Black literary imagination alone is not seen as complete in the modern world: Presently, the European literary canon, “Star Trek,” “Star Wars,” and “Marvel” are designing our Black futures and shaping Black dreams. *

SOSOADAE makes us whole.

Our mission is to create a writer, reader, and listener base that is fiction literate and fluent in anti-racist design by publishing books that change how we write, read, and dream. Our goal is to publish the first generation of great post-colonial writers not influenced by Shakespeare.

We are committed to:

• The promotion of fiction literacy.
• The creation of language to combat anti-Blackness and misogyny in imagination.
• The creation of language that originates from and sees women and Black people.

Which generates:

• Diversity in literary centers and imagination.
• Diversity in books!

*Before you clutch your “combadge” and scream at me because you were bullied and/or called ‘white’ for liking sci-fi, a recent PubWest survey found that 67% of Black people ‘engaged with 4 or more books a month,’ compared to 59% Latine and 50% white. Meanwhile, a separate study found that we (Black creators) represent 3.4% of book publishers –and this is down from 4%. Let’s just agree that the combadge on your chest is a result of anti-Blackness, and that it’s time for a change. If not for you, for others.

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