These are slightly edited notes from the day of conversation at Kalamazoo College, first with the Center for Social Justice Leadership Planning Committee, and then with select faculty and students […]
Tag: octavia butler
I, Radical.
The role of the ‘radical’ is no longer to be angry – it’s to be visionary, loving and solution oriented. Can I say this? I have heard others voice this […]
surviving apocalypse (what i learned at the movies)
i watch and read an incredible amount of science fiction, and am particularly obsessed with the patterns of how communities function when something awful (plague, natural disaster, alien attack) happens. […]
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i have a crush on the future…
today was a good day for pushing the emotional futuristic quadrant of my brain (if that’s an actual scientific part i don’t know where it is). first my Friend’s favorite […]
“human evolution has ended”
i just read a blogworthy sentence in the december 2008 Harper’s findings, which is my favorite part of the magazine. it used to be harper’s index near the front, which […]
i wish this country was better
this may be an obvious thing to say, but i wish this country was better. that’s in the context of wishing the whole human experiment was going much better. i […]