Janelle Monáe is an American singer, actress, dancer, songwriter, performer and activist. She was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2018 for her album “Dirty Computer”. It depicts a fantastical world where thoughts could be controlled or erased by a few. No matter who you were, your life and feelings were dictated by others. It appeared that by controlling a person’s thoughts and self-perceptions, one gained the bland right to decide who someone was and what would happen in life. A sequel to this work is the book “The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer,” which began to be written during the pandemic. It combines genres such as science fiction, cyberpunk, urban fiction, and LGBT literature. It is an anthology, or collection of short stories that take place in the future and deal with themes of queerness, race, gender pluralism and love.