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Octavias Brood Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

by Adrienne Maree Brown and Walida Imarisha
Octavias Brood Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

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This is exactly the kind of fiction I need in this wild time. I recommend this for readers who feel like their imaginations are stagnating, or who want to be reminded that our future is unknown, and thus full of possibility.  Recommended By Junix S., Powells.com

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Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without injustice, we are engaging in speculative fiction. Radicals and activists devote their lives to envisioning and creating another world. What better vehicle for them to explore their work and its possibilities than through writing original science fiction stories?

Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown brought together twenty radical writers to do just that. The result is Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, an enchanting and enlightening collection that uncovers truths buried in the fantastic, and injects a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our search for truth. It is the first book to explore the connections between radical science fiction and movements for social change, using visionary prose to weave strands of real-life experiences — inequality and exploitation, struggle and solidarity — into new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the other selves and worlds that could be.

The stories are rounded off with essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal, as well as a resource guide to other literary, cinematic, and musical examples of radical science fiction.

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Building new worlds from the margins of the old.

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Whenever we envision a world without war, prisons, or capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 20 of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. These visionary tales span genressci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realismbut all are united by an attempt to inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our political practice and to try on new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the selves and worlds that could be. Also features essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a preface by Sheree Renee Thomas.

"Those concerned with justice and liberation must always persuade the mass of people that a better world is possible. Our job begins with speculative fictions that fire society's imagination and its desire for change. In adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha's visionary conception, and by its activist-artists' often stunning acts of creative inception, Octavia's Brood makes for great thinking and damn good reading. The rest will be up to us." Jeff Chang, Who We Be: The Colorization of America

Conventional exclamatory phrases don t come close to capturing the essence of what we have here in Octavia s Brood. One part sacred text, one part social movement manual, one part diary of our future selves telling us, It s going to be okay, keep working, keep loving. Our radical imaginations are under siege and this text is the rescue mission. It is the new cornerstone of every class I teach on inequality, justice, and social change....This is the text we ve been waiting for. Ruha Benjamin, professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of People s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier

"Octavia once told me that two things worried her about the future of humanity: The tendency to think hierarchically, and the tendency to place ourselves higher on the hierarchy than others. I think she would be humbled beyond words that the fine, thoughtful writers in this volume have honored her with their hearts and minds. And that in calling for us to consider that hierarchical structure, they are not walking in her shadow, nor standing on her shoulders, but marching at her side." Steven Barnes, Lion s Blood

Never has one book so thoroughly realized the dream of its namesake. Octavia's Brood is the progeny of two lovers of Octavia Butler and their belief in her dream that science fiction is for everybody.... Butler could not wish for better evidence of her touch changing our literary and living landscapes. Play with these children, read these works, and find the children in you waiting to take root under the stars Moya Bailey and Ayana Jamieson, Octavia E. Butler Legacy

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

Walidah Imarisha is a writer, organizer, educator, and spoken word artist. She is the author of the poetry collectionScars/Stars and facilitates writing workshops at schools, community centers, youth detention facilities, and women's prisons.

adrienne maree brown is a 2013 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow writing science fiction in Detroit, Michigan. She received a 2013 Detroit Knight Arts Challenge Award to run a series of Octavia Butlerbased writing workshops.


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Walidah Imarisha is a writer, organizer, educator and spoken word artist. She is the author of the collection of poetry Scars/Stars. Imarisha has also facilitated writing workshops, for students in grades three through twelve, in community centers, youth detention facilities, and women's prisons.

Adrienne Maree Brown is a 2013 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow writing science fiction in Detroit. She has also received a 2013 Detroit Knight Arts Challenge Award to run a series of Octavia Butler based science fiction writing workshops. Adrienne has helped launch a loose network of Octavia Butler and Emergent Strategy Reading Groups for people interested in reading Octavia's work from a political and strategic framework, and is building with Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network on other ways of extending Butler's work.


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Sally Ember, Ed.D. , December 26, 2015 (view all comments by Sally Ember, Ed.D.)
Also, Congratulations on being included in Ms. Magazine's top 10 feminist books of 2015!!! Marvelous!

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Sally Ember, Ed.D. , December 26, 2015 (view all comments by Sally Ember, Ed.D.)
I saw a bunch of posts as this was in development and also saw a great video of the two editors discussing this project prior to publication. I am asking (repeatedly) for our local public library to purchase it: no luck, so far. Any tips? Very glad this collection is ready for other readers to enjoy! As a feminist sci-fi author myself who grew up reading Octavia Butler and many other feminist sci-fi writers, whom I consider to be my role models, mentors and inspiration, I am pleased to be counted as one among many who appreciate this collection. I host an almost-weekly online, live video talk show, *CHANGES* conversations between authors, and I invite any of these writers to come on my show in 2016! [They won't let me post a link to my website, here, so go to sallyember DOT com to the *CHANGES* tab, FMI.] best to you all! Sally Ember, Ed.D. (author, "The Spanners Series")

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ISBN:
9781849352093
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Trade Paperback
Publication date:
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Publisher:
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Pages:
285
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Width:
5.50IN
Thickness:
1.25
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Yes
Author:
Walidah Imarisha
Author:
Adrienne Maree Brown
Subject:
Science Fiction and Fantasy-Short Stories

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