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T. Aaron Cisco

Minneapolis, Minnesota
Websiteblkintl.com
 Award-winning author/essayist, tv producer, and former touring musician. His most recent s, The Unbanished and Rod String Nail Cloth: An Afrofuturist Mixtape, reached number one on both Amazon's Top 100 Science Fiction Anthologies and Top 100 Black & African American Science Fiction lists in Spring 2022.  
Additional accolades include, being featured by Hennepin County Libraries' Minnesota Black Authors list, and being listed as one of 10 Black Change-Makers Influencing the Twin Cities Arts Scene by Minnesota Daily. Recipient of local Emmys, as well as the Society of Professional Journalists Page One Award. A native Chicagoan, lifelong Trekkie and Whovian, Wonder Woman fan, and chess fanatic, an unabashed advocate of squee, and is unwaveringly devoted to replace gatekeeping and discrimination with appreciation and inclusion.



Thursday, July 6
 

3:30pm CDT

2016 WTF Movie Review DoubleTree Atrium 6

5:00pm CDT

It's Been Written Before DoubleTree Atrium 4

7:00pm CDT

Opening Ceremony DoubleTree Main Stage

10:00pm CDT

Superheroes Rated R DoubleTree Bloomington

11:30pm CDT

Current Events Affecting Comics DoubleTree Atrium 7
 
Friday, July 7
 

9:30am CDT

Rogue One DoubleTree Atrium 6

11:00am CDT

Alternative Sports and Geek Culture DoubleTree Atrium 6 Kirby's Fourth World DoubleTree Atrium 2

12:30pm CDT

Fire the Head Canons DoubleTree Atrium 7

2:00pm CDT

99 Problems But a Pitch Ain't One DoubleTree Atrium 4

3:30pm CDT

Star Trek Retrospective DoubleTree Atrium 6

5:00pm CDT

Props and Practical Effects in Film DoubleTree Atrium 4

7:00pm CDT

Best Indie Comics DoubleTree Atrium 4

8:30pm CDT

50 Shades of Blackface DoubleTree Atrium 7 Fantastic Beasts Moive Fan Panel DoubleTree Edina

10:00pm CDT

A Play in Klingon? How Do You Do That? Sheraton Whalon Doctor Who This Season and Beyond DoubleTree Edina Vilification Tennis DoubleTree Main Stage

11:30pm CDT

Exploring the Multiverse (dance) DoubleTree Main Stage The Pun-el DoubleTree Bloomington
 
Saturday, July 8
 

9:30am CDT

Logan Movie Fan Panel DoubleTree Atrium 6 Modern Treknology DoubleTree Edina

11:00am CDT

LEGO Batman DoubleTree Atrium 6

12:30pm CDT

Beyond Creation: Diversity in Media DoubleTree Atrium 6 Comic Book Writing 101 DoubleTree Bloomington

2:00pm CDT

VR: Fad or Staying? DoubleTree Atrium 2 Why Dystopia is Not Dead DoubleTree Atrium 7

3:30pm CDT

Group Signing DoubleTree Garden Court - Southwest

5:00pm CDT

Wonder Woman Movie Fan Panel DoubleTree Edina

7:00pm CDT

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2 DoubleTree Atrium 6 The Exorcist Comes to TV DoubleTree Atrium 7

8:30pm CDT

Subversive Sci-Fi of Paul Verhoeven DoubleTree Edina

10:00pm CDT

Minnesota Awkward: Conversation and Mingling Tips for the Socially Challenged DoubleTree Bloomington

11:00pm CDT

To Infinity Minus One…and Back Again! (dance) DoubleTree Main Stage

11:30pm CDT

2 Panel 2 Furious DoubleTree Bloomington Dominate Submissions DoubleTree Atrium 2
 
Sunday, July 9
 

9:30am CDT

A Comprehensive Guide to Independent Publishing DoubleTree Atrium 2 Why Are All the Blerds Sitting Together in the Garden Court? Sheraton Ames

11:00am CDT

Star Trek: Discovery DoubleTree Atrium 6

12:30pm CDT

Reading - Taylor Cisco Sheraton Ames

2:00pm CDT

Signing - Taylor Cisco DoubleTree Autograph Table A

3:30pm CDT

New Hollywood Tropes DoubleTree Atrium 4

5:00pm CDT

Closing Ceremony DoubleTree Main Stage