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Anaïs Duplan
Biography
Anaïs Duplan is a trans* writer, curator, and artist. He is the author of a forthcoming book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House, 2017). He was a 2017–2019 joint Public Programs Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He is the founding curator for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies.
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