A luxurious slow read of Octavia E. Butler's body of work from September 2020 to November 2022. Hosts: Njeri @ONYXPages, Isis @sistahscifi, Tatiana @musicaltati
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Writing the Other Retreat @HollyhockLife with @NisiShawl & @tinytempest
September 10 – 16 | Price TBA
In person at Hollyhock Retreat and Learning Center, Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada #WtO2022
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Forum's Book Club is talking Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" tomorrow at 9 with @tarshiastanley @AyanaAHJ @Amazon_Scholar
For this month's Book Club, tell us:
🔴 What's your favorite quote from "Parable of the Sower"?
🔴 What’s stayed with you from it?
🔴 What connections can you draw between our world today and the world described in the book?
#readwithForum
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Yes, she did and so we are.
Octavia Butler is sometimes called “the Mother of Afrofuturism," an open-ended genre combining science fiction, fantasy, and history to imagine a liberated future, through a Black lens.
Listen now: bit.ly/2N5X6Ic
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#DFNYReads via #MITBlackHistory:
TRANSCRIPT: "Devil Girl From Mars": Why I Write Science Fiction by Octavia Butler, 1998.
Writer #OctaviaButler (Kindred, Bloodchild, Dawn) on how "watching a terrible movie" (Devil Girl from Mars, 1954) inspired her. #SciFi
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In my #fridayreads video, I talk about reading #Kindred for the Octavia E. Butler Slow ReadALong! @OebRead #ReadOctaviaSlowly youtu.be/GKopIv9j9KM – at Toronto, Ontario