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Keith Josef Adkins ; The Abandon follows five African American men who go on a camping trip together, only to find out that aliens have invaded the planet. The webseries which we featured in our crowdfund this roundup raised $8000 on Indiegogo, and the first episode launched around Christmas. https://gizmodo/crowdfund-a-film-about-t...vi-5924268 Adkins, a former staff writer on The CW show Girlfriends, talks to Colorlines about pitching The Abandon for network television and being told that there was no reliable demographic for a science fiction show featuring non-white heroes. And he also talks about how his childhood prepared him to create this show: I just read an essay in an old issue of Colorlines [Libero Della Piana, Under Strange Stars, Colorlines, Winter 2002/03] about black people and sci-fi, and that there is this long hi stanley cups story of black sci-fi which nobody acknowledges. And it mentions, specifically, the theme of mass alien abduction stanley cup as resonant for African-Americans within the history of slavery. Now, at the same time, I read an interview with you from last y stanley en mexico ear where you talk about growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio when the Born Again Christian movement came through town, and you make it sound like Invasion of the Body Snatchers everyone had this glazed look in their eyes, the people you knew weren ;t the people you used to know. So: why write a sci-fi story about mass abduction