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 She now has housing!!!!! Abstract Afrofuturist painter: Picassa   Picassa: Summer 2014 Photo by Delores Fisher one of my favorite photos of her Ten years ago, early morning strolls along San Diego pier exposed an often shadow-population of the un-housed who slept while others sat awake to watch over them and to chase away predatory night dwellers who slept during the day so they could prey on the weak after midnight while seeming to casually wander the pier and San Diego's downtown city streets. For the vulnerable on side streets nights were and still are very long all year.                  Sidewalk tent community Photo by Delores Fisher, blogger 2023 Picassa and I met one early fairly sunny San Diego California morning while I was taking a stroll to clear my mind about a recent 2014 blog post. I felt as if something was shifting. I felt unsettled as I walked near the now defunct Anthony's Fish Grotto. A chestnut brown face was l...

Maggie is a photographer with an extraordinary eye for details, colors, shadows, and wonder. She is approximately thirty years old and optimistic about America, its future, its healing, its complex cultural contradictions, and its often ignored people-unifying characteristics as a nation.  Maggie is also homeless in San Diego, has been for the several years I've known her. Although she does create surrealistic phantasms, her photographer's gaze is often realistic, with a dash of humor, irony, and impressions that reflect a phrase I recently coined in 2023 for her work and similar works by homeless artists:  " the satirical homeless gaze."                      Image reproduced with Maggie's permission:   She also uses her creative eye to design patterned hats out of yarn. She is looking for a possible concession spot in a small boutique, once she has a collection of hats to sells.She sells a few on the daily in the win...

 Yes, I used the term homeless in the title as opposed to other more PC terms.  After reading various articles and blogs, including an enlightening reminder by Joe Omundson at  https://medium.com/ecofrugality/stop-confusing-homeless-and-houseless-39b055d29ea3  , the terms homeless and living on the streets seem to be labels these musicians and artists I will write about this summer prefer.                   Glen Pops Freeman photo by Delores Fisher They have shared their stories about COVID 19, feeling invisible, how they spend their daily lives, the precious flow time spent on the streets, maintaining hope while facing pandemic dynamics, a humbling experience they are allowing me to share with you.                                                     I've written about gen ...

Delores Fisher at San Diego Who Con 2021 (Photo permission by photographer) Convention season is starting here in San Diego California. Downtown stores, restaurants, art galleries, and conference rooms will serve thousands of in-person conventioneers this summer! Add to that the ZOOM workshops, breakout sessions, podcasts and webinars, and it almost seems ai if business is back to pre-COVID heights. ALMOST....but-we'll talk about that at a later date. One of the smaller conventions that has returned to in-person attendance and continues to expand is the San Diego Dr. Who Convention.   San Diego Who Con is really fun and informative for fans of hard science presentations as well as the soft and speculative. Anything that has to do with dimensional explorations, robots, and time travel for an Afrofuturist like me, has got to be fun. San Diego Who Con 2022 photo by delores fisher Of course, I still have Dalek issues and wow, this display really sent me thinking about future ...

Hey everybody! Catching up on posting. Thinking about adding an appearance update page. I am working on several projects and scheduled in-person guest appearances. So, perhaps the update page will keep you more in the know about various upcoming or already occurred bookings and events.                                       Delores Fisher Blogger/Poet San Diego State University has many award winning student organizations in a lot of majors! These student organizations are not only becoming more well known locally, regionally, and nationally in their specific fields for research and innovations, but also for their global humanitarian commitment to nurture positive change. SDSU's Black Student Sciences Organization is one of these groups, young scholars dedicated to increase knowledge as they link to humanity. Thank you to Dr. Estralita Martin and previous BSSO presidents for inviting me to...

                                             Delores Fisher blogger/poet at poetry reading Hello to fans across the globe. 2023 is here! Not really making any new year resolutions. Taking life one day at a time as the title of that old Country and Western Christian song says by Marijohn Wilkin and Kris Kristofferson. See Donna Leagh Mathews' brief but informative coverage of the song's origin https://dianaleaghmatthews.com/one-day-at-a-time/ So many changes for all of us as we learn to live with the global reality of COVID as an endemic illness.  It seems we are still divided here in the United States--but a little more respectful--of our choices to mask or not as mandates lift and actual cases lessen. It's nice to take a stroll around our San Diego California pier ...

 Hello local, national and global readers. Just a quick post hello to thank everyone! I've been blogging for over 10 years now and appreciate all the new media platforms that offer a space/place for our voices.                                    Blogger/Poet Delores Fisher  (Summer 2022) I still perform in the community, serve as a public speaker at events, and present at conferences as well as blog about various entertainers and events. Here's a blast from the past 2018  Hope For Hait fundraiser review: https://sonictapestry.wordpress.com/2018/02/24/black-student-science-organization-at-sdsu-hope-for-haiti-benefit-2018/    The BSSO Hope For Haiti event, was organized by new Black Student Science Organization president, Miyu Oda-DesHotels . The Hope For Haiti yearly event  is a fund drive that directly helps to improve the quality of life for those struggling to recove...

 "I'm Tired." sighed the headline by J. M. Garcia. San Diego's little downtown newspaper got my attention that morning, so I went to the sidewalk news rack, opened the door, folded the little paper under my arm. This was going to be a must read for my Trolley commute. Hurt still lingered from stepping quietly by several homeless people laying against building walls and in tents around B Street and 9th Avenue, near Bankers Hill.                                    Delores Fisher Blogger July 2022 Hello readers in France, Canada, and the Netherlands. Thank you so much for your readership.  San Diego's summer season is heating up, drawing regional, national, and international tourists. If  you haven't been here since pre-COVID, like many cities in American, San Diego has changed and is still in transition. San Di...

A special June 2022 hello to readers in Brazil and Germany, and to all Dr Who fans.                                                             Delores Fisher Lecturer Dr. Who fans and those of the Whoniverse in San Diego 2021 with whom I talked during panel discussions, this post was somehow set adrift in a whirl-twirl continuum of daily time flow until now. . . Apologies all!!!  Next, a shout out to San Diego Dr. Who Convention program director John Lias! Thank you for the COVID Interview with Ian P. Duckett and me.                      An interview with Professor Delores Fisher and Ian P. Du...