The Alien experience has provided science fiction writers to discuss sexual, gender, and race politics through a creative realm. Serving as a metaphor of "the other", the alien or exterrestrial experience in science fiction reflect on historical and social reference to the colonized or conquered, and struggles of the decentered subject.

Artists of the Afrofuturist movement, like George Clinton and Sun Ra provide a perspective of forced displacement through an imaginary musical space reflective of the history of the global African diaspora. With The Mothership Album, Clinton describes Funkenstein "put a spaceman with a cloak and diamonds and make him like a pimp spaceman"

On a positive note, the imaginary permits an emancipatory venue for creativity. Van Troi Pang explains that "The Alien DJ Boddhisatva is coming to a universe near you! She travels inter-dimensionally through time and space to liberate oppressed beings and expose them to enlightened beats".. Samuel Delaney confronts the problem of representation, multiculturalism, the control of history, alternative sexualities and perceptions of gender roles, and S&M, in the Neveryon series