Tag: Octavia Butler

Articles

The Most Wonderfully Alternative Families in Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Read at io9.com.

The Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler

The Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler

Articles

Science Fiction & Blackness: A Conversation With Raimi Gbadamosi On African Futures

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Read at OKAfrica.com.

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Articles, Videos

This Year, One Third of “Genius Grants” Recipients Are People Of Color

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Click here to see the complete list of fellows at the MacArthur Foundation website.

Joining a class of folks that includes the late Octavia Butler, Ta-Nehisi Coates is only one of the many people of color recently awarded a coveted MacArthur Foundation grant. (Awardees include everyone from a puppetry director to an inorganic chemist.)

But here’s a video:

Articles, News

Black sci-fi creators assemble at Princeton

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“Ferguson is the Future” was a future-perfect gathering

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Articles

Why Science Fiction Is a Fabulous Tool in the Fight for Social Justice

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Read at The Nation.

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