Afrocentric revisions of world history have given way to Afrofuturist imaginings of the future. In the 2013 video for the song 'Q.U.E.E.N.', black American artists Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu offer an Afrofuturist redefinition of queenliness. While visually and lyrically presenting themselves as queens, they repeatedly ask 'am I a freak for getting down?' The ide...