Author and activist adrienne maree brown discusses with Julie and Eve how the principles of science fiction--and particularly the work of Octavia E. Butler--can help shape movements for social change. adrienne is co-editor of the anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements and co-host of “Octavia’s Parables,” which was recently named a Best New Podcasts of 2020 by The New York Times. She is also the author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, a New York Times bestseller; Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; and We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice.
Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
Like [Octavia] Butler's fiction, this collection is cartography, a map to freedom.—dream hampton, filmmaker and Visiting Artist at Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts
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Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, by adrienne maree brown
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, by adrienne maree brown
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by adrienne maree brown
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, by adrienne maree brown
Octavia’s Parables, co-hosted by adrienne maree brown and Toshi Reagon
How to Survive the End of the world, co-hosted by adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents, by Octavia E. Butler
Bloodchild and Other Stories, by Octavia E. Butler
Wild Seed, by Octavia E. Butler