The introduction of the Black Panther movie into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2018 and its 2021  sequel was the subject of much debate in the queer community because of both its manifest and latent  queer relationships, queer relationships that are explicitly explored in the 2017 sequel to the Black Panther comics: World of Wakanda . World of Wakanda follows two members of the Dora Milaje, Ayo and Aneka,  as they interact with the power structures that bind them as Wakanda’s protectors and understand their  feelings towards one another. World of Wakanda captures the intersection of race, gender, and sexual  orientation as well as the effects of colonization on our understanding of queerness and blackness through  an afrofuturistic lens. Afrofuturism allows queerness to be viewed in a way that is free from the  conventions of modern Western civilization concerning gender roles, images of blackness, and sexuality. First, I will define Afrofuturism and queerness and speculate on h