tonight i had the honor of giving the keynote speech for the national network of abortion funds 2016 summit. i spoke after they gave each other awards and there were […]
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Tag: octavia butler
edges
this country pushes my human heart to its edges earth’s ancient borders let the land breath humans mimic making only ugly edges the majority is dishonest in this way justice […]
golden ages apocalyptic offer
The golden age of climate change is in effect. It’s sweater weather, at most, in the ice tundra states of North America. It’s mid December. It’s gray…and balmy. In many […]
Parable of the Sower Concert Review/Gush
Terry Marshall of Intelligent Mischief recently articulated this moment we’re in as a Black Renaissance. I concur – we are transforming pain into gold at an impossible speed. I keep […]
black sci fi dreaming (report back from Ferguson is the Future)
so…princeton’s new african american studies department partnered with the octavia butler legacy network to offer up ferguson is the future, a black to the future sci fi love fest extravaganza […]
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in octavia’s lineage
happy Octavia Butler birthday!! last year i was beginning the inaugural class of VONA’s Speculative Fiction workshop on Her birthday. this year it’s her day and i’m up early for […]
BALLE 2015 Closing Plenary Speech
Here are the notes from my talk today at the BALLE 2015 Conference! Enjoy. Thank you first and foremost for your work to bend the future towards justice, love, cooperation […]
afrofuturism and #blackspring (new school, #afroturismtns)
welcome to #blackspring! today as we speak there are actions happening across the country, and here in new york, a massive round of future claiming. we tend to think and […]
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thank you octavia
so now the most anticipated thing in my life thus far has come to pass. after a five year gestation period where it appeared the child/project would take on various […]
black love as a radical commitment
i am writing to you from a plantation, but it might also be the future. this space, the franklinton center at bricks, was once a place that slaves were sent […]