lately i’ve felt like god-is-change is saying to me something like ‘you can have what you want, everything you want, but you have to say it out loud.’ today i […]
Tag: octavia butler
wild seed (geek-out notes)
i recently got to hold space for an intimate conversation on octavia butler’s novel wild seed with a group of fans/geeks at solespace in oakland. i mostly didn’t document it […]
dear god-is-change
So… ‘Everything you touch you change Everything you change changes you The only everlasting truth is change God is change’ (Octavia Butler via Lauren Olamina) Sometimes I need to talk […]
afrofuturism and detroit
what an exciting morning in detroit. started off with the always elegant ingrid lafleur speaking on afrofuturism and detroit in a talk oriented towards creatives. here are some twitter highlights, […]
i know i been changed (travel reflections)
Revolution begins with the self, in the self. It may be lonely. Certainly painful. It’ll take time. We’ve got time. That of course is an unpopular utterance these days. We’d […]
octavia + oakland
last week i got to geek out on octavia butler and emergent strategy at solespace in oakland. about the space – if you are in oakland, ever, this is a […]
Corporations Ain’t People: An Interview with Adrienne Maree Brown by Dani McClain
This conversation is a compilation of talks and emails between two writer-activists. We welcome other voices in the conversation – we decided to share this because we want answers and […]
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the octavia symposium (aka: not faster caterpillar – butterfly!
yesterday was one of the best days of my life. i hosted my (the?) first ever octavia butler symposium to create a strategic octavia butler reader for social justice visionaries. […]
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read some other people
read charles johnson. he wrote a book called Middle Passage which grace lee boggs put my attention onto. the book is a fantastical political poetic novel about a black scoundrel […]
random: i’m a futurist, and an INFP
“i am a futurist.” i am trying this out, i have been saying it to people more. like, i think to myself that i am a philosopher and theologian and […]