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Janelle Monáe is a genius who created a decade-long allegory for American society’s need to turn everyone into computers devoid of free-thought, expression, and anything that makes us human. She flawlessly addresses the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality as her android persona tries to navigate through a dystopian world that isn’t so far off from how we live now. Through Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe introduces the concept of growth within the android world she’s constructed by including even more openly queer themes and moving from her signature black and white to introduce color. This growth isn’t without struggle, however, as the emotion picture clearly shows us that it feels easier to be an android than to resist and be yourself in a world that is unwilling to accept you or even let you live if you aren’t white, straight, male, compliant, and, for all intents and purposes, invisible. In this essay, I will