The Visions of Octavia Butler
Afrofuturism is typically defined as a Black cultural aesthetic that explores the intersections of the African diaspora and technology––or, in other words, a form of Black science fiction.
Black writer and performer Neema Githere writes about what she calls “ Afropresentism ,” which she defines as a “teaching genre” that “channels your ancestry
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People are not incorrect about Octavia Butler predicting the future, but they’re not always clear about what kind of future she was envisioning. It’s not the fires or drug use or tumbling literacy rates that she invented—all of those problems were simply there for her to see. What “Sower” imagines, rather, is a future in which surviving the... See more
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Octavia Butler, Larissa Lai, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Rivers Solomon, Thirza Cuthand, the Metropolarity collective (Ras Mashramani, Alex Smith, Rasheedah Phillips, and M. Téllez), and Cherie Dimaline,