Ingrid LaFleur is a cultural strategist, futures researcher, Afrofuture theorist, and pleasure activist dedicated to fostering equitable and just futures. As the founder of The Afrofuture Strategies Institute (TASI), she merges foresight methodologies with the cultural movement of Afrofuturism to cultivate Afrofuture consciousness and inspire transformative action. 

And there's a lot we need to transform within ourselves in order for us to really get this museum going. Cause a museums, as a Western concept are institutions of memory. Telling stories locked into a lineair timeline, of where a history, a movement or a genre once began, and where we are now. Museums often present timelines that historically celebrate the victor, keeping their legacies 'relevant' while erasing the stories of those they left behind.. or who threatens the relevance of the status quo. Traditionally these memories are structured, chaptered and controlled by a Eurocentric ethics of time and space. Can our museum use this reparations money to transcend the need to be validated by the frameworks of the status quo? Can we build a future that doesn’t rest on conquest, domination, or nostalgia for a past that never truly served us? But to do that, we must reject the colonial grip of linear time and instead, we embrace non-linear time, the fluidity of being, found in African mythology, cosmology, and spirituality.